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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20020818
Author:Walden, Celia

Byline: CELIA WALDEN

If I were to meet my father in the afterlife, I would say to him: 'You see, you old bugger, I was right!' He was 84 when he died of a combination of heart attack, a stroke and stomach cancer. Someone was trying to tell him something.

He died in February 1991, a month before I expressed some opinions [he likened himself to the son of God on Wogan] for which I was massively ridiculed in the media.

We both knew that my father was dying but he held on for as long as he could because he feared death. I tried to help him, explaining that death was ...

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