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A mum, an airline stewardess or an artist.
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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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A Yorkshire cricketer, but I wasn’t good enough.
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To be looked at.
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Not a lawyer, which was what I told everyone, because my father wanted me to be one.
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