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My Life: Clarissa Ducie, 8, southeast London

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I'd like to be an actress. I like art and can draw good things like this lion and tiger. I like rollerblading and riding my bike, swimming, rounders, running, jumping, hopping, skipping and hoola-hooping. If I could do anything in the world, I'd go to a theme park every day, and forget about school.

I'd see every film I wanted and invite friends for sleepovers, to go to the cinema with me and then go to the park and go ice-skating. I'd have midnight feasts and stay up all night.

At my summer play club, the best bit was when the Splat people came in for filming. We made a film about Captain Clarissa, it's about me and was called Pirates of the Invicta. I was a pirate. I murdered people, I robbed people, and I died. Another pirate stabbed me.

When she did this, I laughed because she wanted my treasure and I didn't tell her where it was. We got to use a camera, a clapperboard, and work with the continuity person. I got to use the sound boom and headphones.

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