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Having a heart attack two days after my wife’s funeral.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 November 2016 source ↗
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Harry Redknapp
English football player and manager
A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
Lesley Sharp
British actress
I got run over when I was three. I ran across a road in Manchester and was hit by a car. I only had concussion, but I could have died.
Watching Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
Andi Oliver
British cook, television and radio broadcaster, singer
I broke both my legs in a hit-and run accident when I was 26.
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A Mercedes S Class.
This morning. Thinking of my wife.
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