My first wife – we were too young.
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My first wife – we were too young.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗
I know I should be more evolved, but the person I would like to say sorry to I’m not ready to say sorry to yet.
I wish I’d told my mother that, in all the years I knew her, she was never once boring. We weren’t demonstrative, so that would have meant that I loved her.
My husband, Ludo, for not really getting why war movies are fun to watch.
An ex-boyfriend who, looking back, I lost patience with. Now we know more about mental health, I think that was at the root of it; I am sorry I didn’t understand it at the time.
Watching the Festival of Remembrance last autumn.
Glass half full.
Standing outside a pub in Acton on a freezing February day in a threadbare overcoat doing market research.
Not listening to me.
As a man who tried his best to entertain.
I talk too much.
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