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Using my mother’s fountain pen, I scratch misspelt words onto paper. I am writing a play in which my sister, Camilla, is the star. I am five, Camilla is eight. We are roughly the same height, have the same long, dusty blonde hair and share the same love for storytelling.
This play is inspired by parts of the 1980s Cannon rendition of
Sleeping Beauty – a movie that Camilla and I watch over and over again, pausing at specific parts to re-enact moments of drama. I am particularly inspired by the good fairies, so much so that the play I have written is about “the fairies that live in our Hong Kong jungle garden”. As I write, I make a conscious effort to exclude a dark witch or a malevolent force.