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I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
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Queremos crear un ambiente familiar en donde no todo sea fácil, en donde no todo les caiga del cielo, sino que puedan construir su propio camino y tengan ese sentido de desesperación y esa hambre. Eso significa también que todo ese dinero no se les va a dejar a ellos. Se les dará muchísimo amor, como les damos, y muchas oportunidades de educación y de desarrollo, pero todo ese dinero no es para ellos.
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
A book of passwords for all the electrical stuff in the house.
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Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
I fell asleep in a room that had an oil heater and it filled with carbon monoxide and, if it hadn’t been for my husband, Terry, I would have died.
It was a small gig and I was doing Three Minute Hero, which has a long, held note at the end, and I fell off the stage.
An umbilical cord.
My husband snoring.
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