Michelle Dockery
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A teacher at my secondary school. We used to write and sing songs about him. Sorry, Sir! You were a great teacher.
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To my parents, for being such a bitch.
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Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
I behaved badly with two old lovers. Years later, when I took one to lunch to apologise, it made it worse.
My housemate, because I keep shrinking his jumpers in the wash.
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Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.
Boarding school. It was horrible.
Camping with my parents in the south of France. We went every year with the beautiful bell tent they made on a sewing machine. We even had a lavatory tent which was fabulous except, one day, it blew away with my father in it.
Raising awareness of ethical and environmental issues in the clothing industry. I think I was the original whistleblower within fashion.
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