User:Christopherlong

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Christopher Stephen Long, born: 7th November 1982, Cuckfield, United Kingdom.

Born in Cuckfield, Sussex, to Stephen Peter and Diane Elizabeth, Christopher spent his formative years in Haywards Heath, Sussex before moving to Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, when aged 11. He attended St Richards R.C. School (now St Richards Catholic College), where he achieved 11 GSCEs, at grades A*-C. Whilst at school, Long participated heavily in sports, particularly association football, cricket, rubgy, field hockey and athletics, as well as developing a love of and talent for theatre.

Long progressed to Bexhill 6th form College aged 16, but his time there was largely unhappy, and he left for university having failed to achieve anything near his percieved potential.

In 2001, Long began his studies at the University of Wales, Bangor. This change of scenery was of great help to a young man who had begun to loose sight of himself, and saw great change. Long joined the association football team there (eventually becoming club secretary and team captain), and surrounded himself with a diverse range of friends. His penchant for alcohol and happiness in his new surroundings led Long to loose a lot of his inhibitions, primarily fear of other peoples opinions. He grew out his hair and beard, and his favoured nick-name of "Schlong" began to become the alternate persona Long had long desired and now reveled in. Long graduated Bangor in 2004, whilst not necessarily having achieved all he was academically capable of, a happier, more confident and worldwise man.

After the breakdown of his three year relationship with an American, Kathryn McCracken, Long began searching for a career. Though the relationship had failed, Long emerged from it a better person for McCrackens encoauragement and commitment to him. He decided that the best course of action was to serve his country, though a recurrence of childhood petite-mal epilepsy led to him failing his armed service medicals. Battered by a string of rejections and personal difficulties, suffering from heightened aggression (caused by withdrawl from the anti-convulsant Lamotragine) and lonliness, Long was left feeling embittered by the world, and was left searching desparatly for his place in it. Hampered by a self confessed narcissism and inflated self worth, Long moved to his Country's capital, London, to find the greatness he, and many others, always felt himself destined for.