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Tom Holt

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

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Tom Holt is saying that he used to write poetry when he was a child but now sees it as an unpleasant or embarrassing habit. He implies that unlike many childhood behaviors, he has successfully stopped writing poetry as he grew older.

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