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I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

I feel like my life is pretty special.

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

I feel very grateful for the way I was brought up. I did not realise it then, but as I grew older and started writing and realised the material that was there was very strong, I felt very grateful that my life was complicated and that my identity was never clear but put me in a position that was always questioned.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.