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Your support makes all the difference.The maths teacher who apparently ran away with his 15-year-old pupil Megan Stammers is thought to have blogged about the relationship under a pseudonym.
30-year-old Jeremy Forrest used 'Jeremy Ayre' as a stage-name and a blog post at jeremyayremusic.com, written in May, shows signs of a troubled conscience.
Under the title "You hit me just like heroin", it warns that what follows "will have to be a bit vauge to be public-ally digestible".
"About a week ago I had a bit of a moral dilemma to deal with, both internally and externally. And the overiding question it left me with was this; How do we, and how should we, define what is right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable???"
The author answers: "at the end of the day I was satisfied that if you can look yourself in the mirror and know that, under all the front, that you are a good person, that should have faith in your own judgement."
The blog then reviews a selection of gigs.
The search for Megan Stammers continues.
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