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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗
The peace of the Sabbath, of a stopped world, a time outside time, was palpable, infused everything, and I found myself drenched with a wistfulness, something akin to nostalgia, wondering what if: What if A and B and C had been different? What sort of person might I have been? What sort of a life might I have lived?
I would try to be a little nicer to my teachers.
I would have been a better listener. I would have pursued more friendships instead of focusing so much on work and myself. I’m doing all that now, but I’m running out of time.
Every time I got drunk and out of order. Especially in my teens and 20s.
A few nights ago I was crying in my sleep, dreaming of my dead parents.
Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
A 1955 Jaguar XK120. It was not in very good condition and, little by little, I brought it back to its former splendour.
In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
As someone who made a difference.
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