Jodie Whittaker
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Getting my tongue pierced aged 15, when I had train-track braces on both my top and bottom teeth. Huge error.
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To have grown up with my siblings. They were at least 10 years older than me.
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Exhilarating. I’ve been extremely lucky in that the person I love, Annalena, happens to be my wife.
Having a gun held to my head at a May Day rally during the revolution in Grenada. I was mistaken for a CIA agent.
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