How close have you come to death?

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Recorded Orlando Bloom said elsewhere, not written here
At 20, I fell from a fourth-floor window and broke my back. For four days they said I’d never walk again, but I had a miraculous recovery.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 March 2021 source ↗

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Paul Heaton British musician
Again, too many times to mention, but probably being swung from the balcony at the top of the Columbia hotel in London by the bodyguard of a Saudi Arabian princess was fairly close.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 May 2020 source ↗
Marc Almond English singer
The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗

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