Myself. I didn’t know how to protect myself adequately when I was younger, and I think I would have experienced my youth differently if I had.
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To the Scissor Sisters. Back in the day, I could be an absolute monster; I was a real asshole.
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Katharine Hamnett
English fashion designer
To my parents, for being such a bitch.
My younger self for being hard on myself.
Fran Healy
Scottish musician
If I’m ever out of line, I’m very quick to apologise and try to make amends.
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View profile →Five years ago, a concrete plug, a little bigger than a baseball, fell off a building on Hollywood Boulevard when I was riding in an open convertible. It shattered the windshield. It really shook me. I still have it on my mantel.
Getting older and dying.
The realisation that I am no longer young.
It would definitely involve lots of sex. I would spend the afternoon having some crazy passionate declarative sex with my husband.
A Henry Darger painting. Sadly, I lost it in the divorce, but it was a great parting gift.
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