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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s younger sister will forever remember him as a “cuddly person”. The troubled ‘Punch Drunk Love’ actor was found dead on 2 February, 2014, aged 46 in his Manhattan apartment with a syringe in his arm after he accidentally overdosed on drugs including heroin and cocaine – and his paediatric nurse sibling Emily Barr has now written an essay about him for The Paris Review to mark what would have been his 56th birthday. She said in the piece: “He was a cuddly person, much more so than me. “He loved to sit close on a couch, walk arm in arm down the street and hug big.” Emily …

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