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“I’ve never understood that. That would be like you telling me that everybody should want to be a bungee jumper or a racing driver - I can’t understand that. It doesn’t make sense to me. “It was something that I would have been afraid of for a very long time, because very soon after me and Shane got together people started telling me that he didn’t have very long to live. That would have been in 1986.“I spent most of the time worrying about him and worrying that something was going to happen to him.