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Last Christmas I was clipped by a train. Mum was dying so my head was elsewhere. I was walking home and had to cross one of those crossings that say, “Stop, look and listen.” I didn’t do any of those things, and I had my headphones in so I couldn’t even hear the train. It clipped my left elbow.
Probably on a Los Angeles freeway.
When I was about two, I accidentally knocked a boiled kettle on myself. I am scarred, in many ways, from that.
In dreams, but that’s about it.
It would definitely involve lots of sex. I would spend the afternoon having some crazy passionate declarative sex with my husband.
A Henry Darger painting. Sadly, I lost it in the divorce, but it was a great parting gift.
Getting older and dying.
To the Scissor Sisters. Back in the day, I could be an absolute monster; I was a real asshole.
The realisation that I am no longer young.
David Hasselhoff, Elaine Paige, Suzanne Vega, Joss Stone, Shakin' Stevens, Emeli Sandé
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