Michael Kiwanuka
English singer-songwriter
Nothing. Everything happens for a reason.
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I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
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I’d have done everything earlier and with more style.
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July 2018, when I married my third husband, Roger, after two years of proclaiming that marriage at 76 was stupid.
Hard-working, creative, irreverent.
Give, give, give. The more you give, the happier you are.
Warm, sugary, fierce, protective.
To my first husband for being unfaithful, bossy, and eventually leaving him.
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