My younger self for not believing in her.
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My younger self for not believing in her.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2024 source ↗
To all those whose fleeting interaction with me has fallen short of what they’d hoped; the unwitting recipients of my occasional grumpiness.
To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.
I wish I could say sorry to my husband, because I couldn’t save him from his dementia.
Being mean online.
Whenever I’m with my kids.
At the beginning of 2019, I brought my entire family with me on my honeymoon to Bora Bora.
She was a fun, silly girl who wrote positive songs that helped others – and she was a good mama.
My self-criticism.
When I was 11, I went down a water slide and my bottoms didn’t go with me. Everyone saw my bare white butt.
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