Not knowing who my family are.
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Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
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View all 61 →Not to be able to do the things that you take for granted, like running up the tube steps or going somewhere under your own steam.
Seeing my kids getting older scares me.
Instead of saying, “I tripped up”, you have to use the words, “I had a fall.”
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Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
When I changed the toner cartridge in my printer all on my own – that was a day of pure euphoria.
Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
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