Probably a train ticket anywhere in the UK.
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My first car, three years ago – a Toyota Verso.
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I bought myself a diamond pinky ring for two million dollars.
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My glasses. They were more than a grand.
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Like someone is hitting your heart with a cricket bat.
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Today, at the thought of this awful virus killing more and more people.
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Again, too many times to mention, but probably being swung from the balcony at the top of the Columbia hotel in London by the bodyguard of a Saudi Arabian princess was fairly close.
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