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Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
I broke both my legs in a hit-and run accident when I was 26.
When my first husband died, because it felt like my life was over, and it was challenging to keep in life at the time.
Abseiling down a cliff for Doc Martin in a suit, carrying a medical bag.
One time an engineer said, “I always forget your frequency is at the same level as a crying baby.” I think he was on to something, because I have been told to shush many times over the years.
Curious, confident, cheerful.
Fewer night shifts.
Too high an expectation of others and myself.
I’m at my happiest in the ocean, and even better if my husband is there throwing me around.
I think we become stars.
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