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Last Christmas I was clipped by a train. Mum was dying so my head was elsewhere. I was walking home and had to cross one of those crossings that say, “Stop, look and listen.” I didn’t do any of those things, and I had my headphones in so I couldn’t even hear the train. It clipped my left elbow.
A flight from Paraguay to South Africa that went badly wrong. The plane nearly fell out of the sky and the oxygen masks dropped. People were screaming but the pilot saved the day, and then apparently never flew again.
I’m closer today than I was yesterday.
A horse-riding accident when I was about 15.
As a writer who championed women with grit and wit.
Worrying about the faux pas I made earlier that evening. I tend to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease.
Bumping into my male boss at a nudist beach.
I can’t cook. I use my smoke alarm as a timer.
When the book of my enemy was discounted.
People who pretend to have perfect marriages. Perfect marriages are like orgasms – many of them are faked.
Irvine Welsh, Jenny Diski, Ram Dass, Nina Riggs, Bernadine Evaristo, Fatima Bhutto
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