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Writer. If You Were There (HarperCollins, 2021), We All Go Into The Dark (HarperCollins, 2023). franciscogarciadf @gmail .com. Repped @katbuckle / @LondonBookBoy

Out and about

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Joined August 2017

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Francisco Garcia

3 months

In 2019, Glodi Wabuela became the first ‘county lines’ drug dealer to be tried & convicted for human trafficking. It was a shock to realise I’d gone to primary school with him. I’ve spent the last year putting together his story for @gdnlongread

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From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people?

The long read: When I heard that a boy from my primary school had been convicted of trafficking, I had to find out what had happened to make him fall so far

www.theguardian.com

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Strolled past a young couple having a minor row in Soho. Girl turns to the bloke in exasperation. ‘I’m so sick of you talking about Young Sheldon’. A chilling glimpse into the abyss…

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Francisco Garcia

2 years

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) will no longer contain any reference to Russian henchwoman 'Ivana Humpalot'

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Pay 👏Coleen👏Rooney👏Poirot's👏Wages👏

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5 years

This has been a burden in my life for a few years now and finally I have got to the bottom of it......

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2 years

It is difficult to imagine the scenes that are going to transpire at this pub tonight

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Francisco Garcia

6 years

Nothing but my undivided respect and admiration for the two 16 (?) year olds at the pub last night, who came dressed in full suits to get served. A properly outrageous hustle, that gives me some hope for the future.

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Francisco Garcia

7 months

Mad how we're supposed to accept this filthy grey slop as 'daylight'. They're laughing at us!

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2 years

This is D-Day for the UK’s privately educated front facing camera comedians

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

They should drop a minibus full of goths off at the villa, for a laugh

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Heard a rumour that your boyfriend got an A* in A-Level 'Philosophy' by answering the exam question 'What Is Bravery?' by simply writing 'this.' and decking an invigilator.

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Has to be the 30-year-old who I met as a Fresher in Dundee that had lived in halls for 12 years- on and off- because the 'vibe was just better'.

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Some personal news

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Salt Bae is the world's greatest living artist

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

There is a deep, deep sickness in any society that has normalised the £6.30 pint of Peroni

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Francisco Garcia

6 years

Fave part of Christmas? Has to be getting a glimpse of the country estate homes of all the communists I follow on Instagram.

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Francisco Garcia

2 years

To celebrate my 30th birthday, I’m going take an axe to the public piano in Euston Station

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Francisco Garcia

6 years

Always gives me a tiny thrill to check in on the Fulham Ultras.

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2 years

Teenage boy just stopped in the street to shout ‘oi Ed Sheeran’ at me. Good to see the ancient, subtle art of ‘absolutely mugging off randoms’ is alive and well. The kids are going to be alright.

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Fully embracing the enthusiastic Instagram aunty stage of the p*ndemic. Replied to my mates photo of his breakfast with an enthusiastic 'yum!' this morning. Who knows what the weekend will bring. Nothing dignified, I imagine.

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Beyond devastated for everyone who needed a Labour government

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Francisco Garcia

6 years

Very into the chosmic bleakness of Rupert Grint having a Harry Potter themed birthday party.

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Francisco Garcia

4 years

Is it possible to expire from a lack of gossip?

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

If we are remotely 'back to normal' for the summer, then I solemnly pledge to attend every birthday party in the UK

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Don't usually post personal stuff on here, but my girlfriend's left me. She says she couldn't handle my pasta touching fetish anymore. I can't even lie guys.... I'm feeling Cannelloni right now!

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

In Glasgow doing some research and very taken with this amazing diagram from a 1960s study of the city's marauding 'youth gangs'

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3 years

One of the few areas that the UK can claim to be genuinely 'world leading' is in producing gentlemen of breathtakingly vibey proportions

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3 years

mum said it's my turn on the nintendo

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

I saw a play called A Dream of Dying a few years ago, at the Edinburgh Fringe. It led to a decade old missing persons case in Ireland that has baffled and haunted me, and so many others, ever since. Spent the last few months reporting on it for @VICEUK .

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Peter Bergmann – The Man Who Made Himself a Ghost

In 2009, a man calling himself Peter Bergmann was found washed up on an Irish beach. Ten years later, police, journalists, and internet sleuths are still trying to work out what happened.

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2 years

Been in Stoke Newington 2 hours and seen multiple fully grown men roller skating. Think that’s me done with the borough of Hackney for another 30 years

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Just got off the Eurostar at St Pancras after a particularly enlivening FBPE silent disco outside the European Parliament. Bought this in a Brussels petrol station on the way home and realised this is the last meal I will eat as a European. For shame, Mrs May.

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Some personal news

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Saving Ryan's Private School

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Francisco Garcia

6 years

Is there any greater pleasure in life than being on a gentle wind-up? Telling your 6ft 6 mate you're taller than him. Loudly proclaiming 'food is shit', or 'laughter is for perverts'. Boorishly insisting on being 'London's fastest walker' a current fave. Here fishy fishy... 🎣🎣

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Wrote this about missing people, ‘closure’ and the wonderful shock of reconnecting with my long lost family in Spain. It’s in todays @ObsMagazine ,if you fancy a read

How a writer found himself in a missing person story

While working on a book about missing persons, Francisco Garcia received a message that turned his life upside down. Here he reflects on love, loss and the enduring promise of reunion

www.theguardian.com

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Gran was one of my primary carers growing up, before I ended up as one of hers. It's been ten years since she died, though not a day goes past when I don't think about her, and the things I should have done differently. Wrote a short piece about it.

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6 years

I went to Glasgow last month to write about the sad, savage story of Bible John, the 60s serial killer that still haunts the city's imagination 50 years on.

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The Mystery of 'Bible John', Scotland's Zodiac Killer

Fifty years ago, three married women turned up dead after a night at Glasgow's Barrowlands Ballroom. The killer has never been found.

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

JK Rowling has tweeted movingly about Hagrid’s struggles with Long Covid

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5 years

My friend asked me if I wanted to come to the cinema to watch the Joker. I said friend, I can watch him at home any time I like, on Blu-ray or VHS...

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3 years

Setting up a support group for other late onset hayfever sufferers who used to mock and belittle their beloved friends and family about 'crying over a bit of pollen' x

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Would love to shake the hand of whoever came up with the Victoria Line. They'd certainly had their Weetabix that morning! It's just class!

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

WHO investigators have traced the first case of COVID-19 back to a 2014 Carl Barat DJ set at the Amersham Arms

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Everytime I remind myself of this, I ROAR with laughter at the mere imagining of it. The best headline of all time, no debate cheers.

No actual lake measures up to the ideal lake for which I yearn

The sea is limitless, so why is a lake so much more mysterious?

www.theguardian.com

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

🎉 Very surreal that this book is now officially out there in the world. It was a real honor and privilege to tell these stories of the missing and left behind, and I hope people enjoy reading them. Too many thanks to give, to everyone who made this possible! 🎉

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Francisco Garcia

6 years

Me, ordering a 'Coors Light'

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Francisco Garcia

6 years

Nothing quite like loosening the tie, setting down the briefcase and ordering 16 buckets of woowoo, after a long hard day of being 'over 18'.

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Francisco Garcia

4 years

Funniest thing to have happened this year was a recent dream in which I called my partner a 'peasent' in jest and she immediately shot me

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Honestly don't have any idea whats going on at this point

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Francisco Garcia

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RIP legend. My favourite bit from a shambolic group interview with SM, Mark E Smith and Nick Cave circa early 90s

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Not a new point, but the idea of being encouraged to vote for the Conservatives on an anti-racism platform is so headspinningly grotesque that it's difficult to find words for it

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Imagine being the first caveman to have stuffed a bit of baccy in a Rizzla. Dipping it in the fire outside your filthy stone hovel and just instinctively chuffing down. What a buzz it must have been. Wish it had been me, to be honest.

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5 years

The very thought of this is enough to make me ROAR with laughter. One of the most sinister things I've ever read lmao

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Experience: I don't wear shoes

Bea Marshall: ‘I’ve stepped in glass and dog dirt. The glass was painful but it didn’t do any real damage. With dog mess I just wipe my feet on grass and then wash them at a tap’

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

See also, the story of the crew scattering rubbish across a walkway on the Aylesbury Estate for the 'gritty' Channel 4 'council estate' ident.

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From the archives (2010): BBC film crew is given permission to paint graffiti while filming on Heygate estate because it wasn't 'edgy' enough for them.

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3 years

Walking from Waterloo to Catford vibe

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

At the start of the year, I finished writing a book about missing people, including my own absent father and Spanish family. Not long after, I received a series of messages that have genuinely, beautifully, changed my life forever

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Francisco Garcia

2 years

Wonder how much ambient damage I've done to my brain over the years, by simply being on 'the internet'

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It is insanity inducing that Peter Mandelson- one of the most laughably corrupt figures in modern British history- is uncritically treated as a wise elder statesman

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Francisco Garcia

2 years

Yeah, so this is a textbook imposter syndrome flare up. Please be kind.

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Signalling at an aide through clenched teeth to move something out of his way

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6 years

One of the most iconic- and criminally underrated- speeches of the last decade. Goosebumps, every time.

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Registering to vote vs not registering to vote ☑️🗳️

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3 years

Don't think I've ever been as tickled at a 'meme'

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3 years

Glasgow really is an unbelievably beautiful city

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5 years

Not a new thought, but I really do find it satisfying to sit at the top of a packed rush hour bus. All the hopeful little people rushing up, convinced they'll be ones to get the 'last seat'. Far too late Patricia, but do try the lower deck, much more your speed!

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5 years

Your father just uploaded this to Facebook and tagged Greta Thunberg

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Francisco Garcia

2 years

Delighted to share that my second book, We All Go Into The Dark will be published by @harpercollinsuk /Mudlark in March 2023

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3 years

I have tested positive for never wanting to drink another beer in my life

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3 years

Not really what I got from The Remains of the Day, but it does make you think

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2 years

On the train from Catania to Naples, which has just merged into this very beautiful ferry journey

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Did the struggling buy-to-let landlords ever consider simply not buying so many flats to let?

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Francisco Garcia

6 years

Me and @CBethell_photo went back to Forest Hill last month, and I wrote about deep childhood memories and a place that I'll forever be a bit in love with. Even if that love might occasionally be unhealthy- I don't know.

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Home Coming: Honor Oak

Francisco Garcia remembers the family, friends and distant views off high hills that made him.

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4 years

My last two braincells after all the news this week

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Just saw a man spring across roaring traffic outside King's Cross station and keep running straight into Burger King. Unbelievable scenes.

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Just logging back in to say this wasn't my meal! I would never spend more than £10.50 on a Red Bull

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

In May 1992, Te Rangimaria Ngarimu walked into a London hospital & murdered a man in cold blood. She was, & remains, the only known female contract killer in UK criminal history. Spent a while writing & reporting on a strange, grubby tale for @VICEUK

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The Bartender Who Became Britain's One and Only Female Contract Killer

Thirty years ago, a woman from a respectable Christian family walked into a hospital and shot a man at point blank range.

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

I'd like to clear up one of the vicious rumours being put on my name by the trolls. Yes, I went to a London coffee bar once or twice in my youth. I didn't like it and I didn't inhale. I never went to one again.

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Really excited to see these proofs arrive in the post today- can't wait for people to read now🎉

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3 years

Portrait of a man thoroughly enjoying 'outdoor dining in gale force winds' last night

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5 years

Card machine isn't working in Imperial War Museum cafe & I didn't have cash, so the bloke next in line bought my sandwich for me. Might be my comically overwrought emotional state this week but almost burst into tears of gratitude. Should be a Christmas film made about this imo.

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

I do however believe that Salt Bae is a legend for managing to parley pouring some Maldon Salt down his forearm into a Ponzi/luxury restaurant empire

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Would be class if Prince Phillip came out of hospital unbelievably hench

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Francisco Garcia

1 year

I went up to Glasgow at the end of last year to spend time with The Digger, Scotland's most notorious crime magazine. It was certainly an experience. I've been adding to that initial reporting ever since, & you can read the results here, for @ftweekend

How Glasgow’s tiny, muckraking crime mag stays afloat

Every week, some 700 newsagents display the latest issue of The Digger. What’s the paper’s secret?

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Francisco Garcia

7 years

bruce forsyth and big ben dancing up a treat in heaven tonight... some stories between the two of them i bet aha x

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Francisco Garcia

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William Lyttle, aka the Hackney Mole Man died in June 2010. By then, the facts of his life were already buried in rumour and bullshit. I’ve spent the last year trying to get nearer ‘the truth’. It’s on the cover of the @FTMag & I’m proud to share it here

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He dug a 20-metre hole under his London townhouse. Who was he?

The curious case of the Hackney Mole Man

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

20 years to the day since mum died. Feels like yesterday and also about a million lifetimes ago. Don't really have anything 'new' to say about it that I didn't write here, so forgive me for sharing it again!

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Home Coming: Honor Oak

Francisco Garcia remembers the family, friends and distant views off high hills that made him.

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Fascinated by the pointless cruelty of people ‘outing’ human statues

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Happy birthday to the don🥳🎉

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3 years

I know 'this' will all be over the night I can fall asleep fully clothed on my friends sofa after an evening of moderate excess, waking up the next morning to a paused Rush Hour 3 on the TV and several overflowing Gü ashtrays dotted around the room

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4 years

So Beale is getting offed by a poisoned Christmas pudding? You wouldn't see De Niro agreeing to go out like this. This country treats its artists like filth.

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5 years

Took my ten year old son to vote, he's registered 'real'. In a very loud voice he said "which box for out?" A cheer went up from the waiting toddlers

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An amazing letter received from fellow leaver Matthew, who is 10 years old.

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Watched my friend eat a calzone double the size of her head last night in Ciao Bella, with absolutely minimal fuss. I'm not exaggerating when I say the waiter gave her a standing ovation on completion. One of the most exhilarating things I've ever witnessed. Just pure showbiz.

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3 years

Having to accept I might be getting to an age where my 20/20 is starting to slip. Just thought I’d seen Greta Thunberg outside a Superdrug in Holborn. A figure, on closer inspection, that turned out to be a middle aged man

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Francisco Garcia

1 year

Pleased to announce my 30000 page pamphlet 'Nepo, Baby?' will be published by Peckham Library's HP printer in June 2028

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Francisco Garcia

1 year

Delighted that it’s finally publication day. I’m excited for people to read this now it’s out in the world. I just hope I’ve done the story justice. Lovely to see it in @Foyles

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5 years

Quite incredible to me that this man is real

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5 years

For sale: Brexit costume, never worn

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4 years

If you've made rudeness a key part of your personality and are over 14 then I'm afraid you're a weirdo, and quite probably beyond help

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2 years

My friend was telling me the other day about a mate of his who was christened 'the professor' in his teens because he would occasionally read a book in public. Will always love that kind of impeccably annoying/light patter

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5 years

Changed my little profile picture on here to a nice, up to date number. Creasing that it's been cropped to make it look like I'm offering out my hand for a firm but fair handshake. Unbelievably powerful 'LinkedIn recruiter' vibe.

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Francisco Garcia

5 years

Voted earlier, feeling electric and I solemnly vow to buy everyone in the UK a pint tomorrow if we boot these devils OUT!

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Here we go!

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Francisco Garcia

3 years

Cool to see the finished book in the flesh. Roll on May 13th!

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5 years

Broke: clapping when a flight lands Woke: letting out a blood chilling scream of appreciation

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