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Helen Edmundson, because I wasn’t able to be a better friend at school.
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To Mark Smith, a boy we bullied at primary school. I’ve always felt terrible about it.
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My father – I think he doubted our closeness.
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To my brother, because when we were kids I didn’t understand his illness and it used to irritate me.
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My mother, because I didn’t appreciate until after she’d gone that she was a vulnerable human being. I just expected her to know everything and be everything.
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Stacey Dooley. She does incredible documentaries – in one, she took spoiled British kids to the Philippines to work in a factory. It’s exactly what my kids need to watch.
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