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I’m getting closer all the time.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2024 source ↗
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How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
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Steph McGovern
Broadcaster
Falling off what we in Middlesbrough call a “tarzy”, a bungee rope. I was swinging on it, fell and broke my arm.
Julia Ormond
English actress
A trip to a Macedonian refugee camp that I switched out of, to go at a later date. Those who took my place were killed in a horrific car accident.
Rita Wilson
American actress, singer, and producer
Having breast cancer.
In a different sense, I’ve helped to try to resuscitate a dead man.
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Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
Comforting, uplifting, all consuming.
Never working again.
My ex-wife, for the way I behaved towards the end of our marriage.
“You can’t play Maxim de Winter with ginger hair.”
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