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My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
Helen Edmundson, because I wasn’t able to be a better friend at school.
If I’m ever out of line, I’m very quick to apologise and try to make amends.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
My kids, for the jokes. Some of them are pretty bad.
Not having longer legs.
When I received my scholarship to art school in 1945.
Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
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