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Helen Edmundson, because I wasn’t able to be a better friend at school.
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To Jade, my other half, because I can be hard work sometimes, and he is the most calm and understanding person I’ve ever met.
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To my brother, because I wish I’d been there for him more.
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Katy Perry. I hired a Russell Brand lookalike as a joke for the radio, and she thought it was actually him. When she realised it wasn’t, she burst into tears. She was still married to him, but I didn’t take into account that there were things going on that we didn’t know.
So many. I have been very cowardly in the past, and it came across as me not caring, when the opposite was true.
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As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.
An English teacher, and then a dance teacher.
I am a good sleeper.
I would edit my worry, because I suffer from anxiety, which ruins some moments.
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