When my first husband died, because it felt like my life was over, and it was challenging to keep in life at the time.
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Physically, falling off my bike two years ago. Emotionally, when my mother died when I was 27.
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A flight from Paraguay to South Africa that went badly wrong. The plane nearly fell out of the sky and the oxygen masks dropped. People were screaming but the pilot saved the day, and then apparently never flew again.
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When I was about two, I accidentally knocked a boiled kettle on myself. I am scarred, in many ways, from that.
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A running accident when I was 14 or 15. I fainted but I was a bit of a jester and they thought I was taking the piss, so I was left for a bit. I woke up in hospital.
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