I’m not really ashamed, but I haven’t read Lord of the Rings.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four. I always meant to read it before 1984, and once 1984 had passed I didn’t see the point.
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None. I’m not ashamed. I’m dyslexic so I don’t read a lot of books.
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Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
An umbilical cord.
I fell asleep in a room that had an oil heater and it filled with carbon monoxide and, if it hadn’t been for my husband, Terry, I would have died.
My husband snoring.
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