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Yesterday. Everything seemed impossible.
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Emily Mortimer
British actress
Yesterday, at my stepsister’s funeral. She was 78, an actor, and died of cancer.
John Grisham
American writer and lawyer
When my mom died, on 18 January this year.
James Dyson
British inventor and businessman
Very recently, when a graduate at the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology gave the most brilliant speech on behalf of the students at our first graduation.
I cry all the time in front of the telly. I was doing Gogglebox with Julian Clary recently and I cried watching The Piano.
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