Anyone who is a carer.
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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View all 407 →My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.
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He passed away a few months ago: Muhammad Ali.
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My mum, for putting up with me all my life.
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Peter Tatchell is a person very worthy of admiration, but few ever seem to acknowledge him as such.
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