Michael Flatley
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My recent battle with cancer.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2023 source ↗
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Having breast cancer.
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I was nearly hit by an enormous gold-fibreglass cherub in a shopping centre. It fell five storeys and smashed into a thousand pieces about 4ft away from me.
Sheryl Crow
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years ago, but so early that I knew it wasn’t a death sentence. Until we get a cure for cancer, early detection is our best hope.
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To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
All my clothes are secondhand, but I did buy a pair of new silver Vivienne Westwood shoes to get married in, which I still have.
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