The people I hurt when I was suffering with addiction to alcohol and cocaine.
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An ex-boyfriend who, looking back, I lost patience with. Now we know more about mental health, I think that was at the root of it; I am sorry I didn’t understand it at the time.
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Myself. I have never been harder on anyone else.
Every woman I dated before I met my wife, because I think I convinced too many people that they were the one, and they were not the one.
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As a good friend, somebody people could rely on, somebody who liked a bit of a laugh, and as a good mother.
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