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How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
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A car crash in the Utah mountains in 2005. We were driving from Arizona to Salt Lake City to go to a basketball game and the car slipped on black ice and we skidded off the motorway, flipped over and rolled down a ravine. The police officer said it was the worst accident he’d seen in 18 years when nobody died.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 April 2021 source ↗
Rolling a quad bike.
Undiagnosed VIPoma in 2018.
A running accident when I was 14 or 15. I fainted but I was a bit of a jester and they thought I was taking the piss, so I was left for a bit. I woke up in hospital.
Watching Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
Like hugging your children first thing in the morning and kissing them goodnight.
Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.
I don’t really flash money about.
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