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'What was I going to do in New York?' It's been exactly ten years since Louise O'Neill left for new York (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

I looked at my diary this morning and I realised that it is exactly ten years since I left for New York and it feels both impossible and inevitable that a decade could have passed.

It wasn’t my idea to go. It was another woman at DIT, Vicky, who suggested it.