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As a kid, all I thought about was death.

I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

I feel like I died as a child.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.