Kim Wilde
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When I was three and had meningitis.
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During my severe clinical depression in 2016. I was at Piccadilly station in Manchester and a train was coming.
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Gary Numan
British musician
I was an air display pilot for 15 years, and watched most of my friends die in crashes. When the children came along, I got out of it.
Getting into a tense argument with Russell Crowe during one of the Vanity Fair Oscar parties.
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Climbing in Tibet, surfing in Australia and a moment ago by a courgette cutter as I dithered over one of these questions.
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To my children, because their mum and dad’s relationship failed, and I know that has caused them great sadness.
Hot Legs by Rod Stewart: I’m going to be cremated.
A little more spiritual enlightenment.
Now. I am father to Albert, seven, and Esme, six. I’ve never experienced happiness as complete as caring for them.
I think I’ve only really experienced it on a parental level, and it feels like the rhythm of nature.
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