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Vanessa Redgrave
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To lose my fourth baby.
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Some of my choices were mistakes, so I’d have to say myself.
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My brother Pete passing on in 2005.
I had an opportunity many years ago to move to America and be given a daytime TV show. The kids were quite young and I decided not to, but looking back I wish I had done it.
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