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The notion that anything is possible.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗
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That they were loved.
A house in west London.
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I’m slightly impatient.
Funny, loyal, genuine.
“Do you know what your problem is?” It was a dear friend of mine. They were referring to the fact that I’m impatient.
Ignorance and rudeness. Decency and a please and thank you cost nothing.
I was a guard on the Orient Express – however, only when it was stationed at a railway siding in Vauxhall.
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