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The double marathon on the last day of my 27 marathons in 27 days.
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What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
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Emma Barnett
British broadcaster and journalist
Keeping a relationship with the love of my life, for 16 years.
Paul Heaton
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Making songs that are more famous than me.
Stephen Dorff
American actor
My body of work and maybe the fact that I got famous young and I am still here and never ended up in a jail cell.
Kevin Rowland
British singer
The contentment I have now.
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With a blue plaque.
Mozart’s clarinet concerto from the Out Of Africa soundtrack.
Nelson Mandela, because I didn’t do enough to stop apartheid. Now I have hopefully made amends.
Living in Bangor, County Down, because my mum was still alive. She died when I was six.
The UK voting for us to stay in Europe on 23 June.
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