blonde, I’m dark, she’s American
and I’m British; how could anyone
think we were sisters? She was the
key; she had already found him
and she gave me his last name.
We had a wonderful time; he’d
phone me every day and then one
day he went outside and literally
just dropped dead of a massive
heart attack. I was devastated because
my adopted dad had died
only nine months before; how
weird was that? Who loses two
dads in nine months? An adoptee
does because we have to lose four
parents. We have to do that four
times, you only have to do it twice.
I think that thing of a lifelong impact;
now I have these siblings
that I’ve met in my fifties that I’m
now building relationships with
and they’re strangers. I wrote a
song called ‘Perfect Stranger,’ so
yes it comes out in all the music
because; how does one make
sense of it? It’s almost too much to
make sense of; I don’t think people
realize how complex it is.”
Now firmly with both feet
back in the music realm and a
Watch a video for “Red Boots” by Zara Phillips
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