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To my wife Saadiya, for interrupting too many evenings, weekends and family holidays with work.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2016 source ↗
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To my brother, because I wish I’d been there for him more.
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I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
My younger self for being hard on myself.
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He knows who he is. I’ve apologised. I wish it made more difference.
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