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I wish I’d told my mother that, in all the years I knew her, she was never once boring. We weren’t demonstrative, so that would have meant that I loved her.
To everyone who has been out with me and had to deal with my lack of emotional maturity.
To my parents for all the mess-ups. There have been times when I’ve been going through something and I’ve thought, God, I’m so glad my mum and dad are dead, because they don’t have to go through it with me.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
Ten years ago I bought a painting. I lived with it for a year before realising I didn’t like it at all. So it’s on my wall, mocking me daily.
My father, because he’s never run away from anything.
Swimming off the north Cornish coast eight years ago. I remember thinking, “Why did they teach you how to inflate your pyjamas in life-saving classes at school, when they could have just told you what to do in a riptide?”
As I get older, I get happier.
Funerals are for the people left behind, so I don’t mind.
Like you are standing with an army.
Adjoa Andoh, Aidan Gillen, Alice Eve, Alison Steadman, Andrea Riseborough, Angela Griffin
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