Adrian Dunbar
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My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
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On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
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Lots of times, mostly all connected to Gordon and my children.
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Now. I feel wiser and calmer than I’ve ever been.
Right now, in the present. I have a short memory.
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A couple of days ago, saying goodbye to my children.
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