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Nelson Mandela, because I didn’t do enough to stop apartheid. Now I have hopefully made amends.
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Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
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John Simpson
English journalist
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.
Everybody I’ve lost to suicide. When someone dies in that tragic way, you always feel you could have done more.
Kim Gordon
American musician and artist
My parents: I’m sorry I didn’t spend more time with them.
Kate Nash
British musician
Everyone I ever met in 2007, because I was definitely about two hours late.
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The UK voting for us to stay in Europe on 23 June.
The double marathon on the last day of my 27 marathons in 27 days.
With a blue plaque.
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