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Some of those late nights.
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My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
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Steve Pemberton
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Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.
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I would try to work on being able to trust people more easily.
Eve Ensler
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I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.
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The summer of 1997. My husband, who is an American, gave up everything to come and live with me in Edinburgh when we were students, and we were so skint but we had so much fun.
At a fashion show after-party in New York in 2004, my friend dared me to push her into the pool. I did, and you’ve never heard laughter die so quickly.
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