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Having a gun held to my head at a May Day rally during the revolution in Grenada. I was mistaken for a CIA agent.
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Skydiving: the parachute got tangled around my legs.
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Probably on a Los Angeles freeway.
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In the early 90s, in the Andes, caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000ft with three others. We were all in a very bad way. Some guys close to us perished; we were lucky.
My failed driving test a few months ago. I got three majors and by the end of it the examiner couldn’t wait to get out of the car.
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Exhilarating. I’ve been extremely lucky in that the person I love, Annalena, happens to be my wife.
To have grown up with my siblings. They were at least 10 years older than me.
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