Clara Amfo
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I choked on a hard-boiled lemon sweet when I was 13. My brother Sam saved me.
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In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗
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Liev Schreiber
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A car accident in British Columbia 35-40 years ago. I was driving too quickly on a dirt road and lost control of the car, and it went off a cliff and got stuck in some treetops. We were not at all hurt; we actually just climbed out.
Lance Black
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On a flight between Beijing and London with Team GB divers. There was a fire on the plane. We landed on a long-abandoned strip in Siberia. Two days later, the same flight attendants told us we had beaten the odds by surviving.
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The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.
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A few nights ago I was crying in my sleep, dreaming of my dead parents.
Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
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