Probably my wife, because sometimes I do crazy things.
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Katie Whittaker. When we were at school, I told her I knew Take That, and I didn’t.
To my brother, because when we were kids I didn’t understand his illness and it used to irritate me.
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Content. Cheerful. Appreciative.
“Didn’t you used to be Graydon Carter?”
The metabolism I had in my 20s.
Be generous and kind. Honestly, those two things did everything for me.
That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
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