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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 March 2021 source ↗
When I was doing my gold swimming badge. I had to get undressed in a swimming pool and had forgotten my gym kit, so the teacher gave me a kit two sizes too small. In the water, I got my arms up over my head to get the shirt off and they locked. I sank to the bottom of the pool and sat there until a girl jumped in and dragged me back up again.
Hitchhiking across Australia as a teenager, relying on the kindness of passing serial killers.
Last Christmas I was clipped by a train. Mum was dying so my head was elsewhere. I was walking home and had to cross one of those crossings that say, “Stop, look and listen.” I didn’t do any of those things, and I had my headphones in so I couldn’t even hear the train. It clipped my left elbow.
I got stabbed in the neck with a light tube during a wrestling “death match” two years ago. It was scary. I thought I was dying: your life does flash before your eyes.
I wouldn’t have hurt as many people, and I would have thought more before speaking.
To Sophie, for not being a better parent.
A mum, an airline stewardess or an artist.
As having been loving and fun.
A blurred, warm state of total acceptance and joy.
Adam Clayton, Adam Peaty, Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen, Alex Lawther
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