When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
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A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
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I’ve been asleep at the wheel on the M11, had an engine fire over the Atlantic in a light aircraft, driven unprotected through an enemy firing zone to do a gig in wartime Sarajevo – the list goes on and on. But I did have stage 3 throat cancer and was cured by some fantastic UK medics.
When my first husband died, because it felt like my life was over, and it was challenging to keep in life at the time.
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As someone who had time for everybody.
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