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On a school trip to Wales when I was 12. My canoe capsized and got stuck upside down next to a rock. I was underwater for about 30 seconds but it felt a lot longer.
Rolling a quad bike.
A motorbike crash. I broke my shoulder and ribs and was so scared I didn’t ride for two years.
In a different sense, I’ve helped to try to resuscitate a dead man.
That most men have not yet come to understand the impact and the devastating consequences of violence against women.
Going off all technology.
In my 60s. So many things that tortured me when I was younger have fallen away. Writing The Apology, the letter I wrote in my father’s voice, apologising for abusing me, has freed me from the last vestiges of anger, confusion, rancour and hate. It released me from a frame that had determined my life.
As being useful.
I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.
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