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Positive, Confident, Easy Going
How would you describe yourself in three words?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Loving, creative, demanding.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗
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Complicated, chaotic, messy.
Unimpeachable, nonpareil, self‑effacing.
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My daughters and granddaughters.
Kind, thoughtful and gave damn good advice.
One after the other, thoughts come banging in – and it’s no sleep for you tonight, dearie.
A Biba dress when I really couldn’t afford it. It was every scrap of my money and I’ve never parted with it.
Life is never fair.
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