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Radio 4 Extra,4 mins

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"I learned how to cry" - Julie Goodyear on overcoming loss

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Julie Goodyear tells Kirsty Young how years of tragedy, including the death of her grandmother, being left without her son's father and being abandoned at her next wedding for the best man, left her hospitalised and needing to learn to release her emotions.

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