The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
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A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
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I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗
The people I worked with when I was in the final two years of my drinking.
I’ve said sorry to everybody I wanted to – I’m good at saying sorry quickly.
To Ms Dooley, for failing my maths GCSE several times over.
My dog, Mr Q, because he has the saddest look when I leave.
Recently, when I got out of hospital and into my own bed with my wife and 10-year-old son; we watched some crap television and life had never seemed better.
Reading the news. It’s a dull job.
Comfort, warmth and security.
I would have behaved better to my first wife, and the girl I lived with afterwards. I was always away.
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
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