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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 July 2018 source ↗
Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
I’m closer today than I was yesterday.
Having a gun held to my head at a May Day rally during the revolution in Grenada. I was mistaken for a CIA agent.
Last year, driving in California, I found myself on the wrong side of the road. I was 30 seconds away from hitting two cars coming the other way.
I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
To be looked at.
My A-level results - I got two Cs and an A. I had applied to do philosophy at Cambridge, and thought my life was over.
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
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