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I got very emotional yesterday with a dear friend who was telling me about his relationship falling apart.
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When I read the story of a blind, bisexual goose called Thomas who had died in New Zealand after a lifetime of love for a swan called Henry. It sounds ridiculous but is entirely true.
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Yesterday, when I heard songs that Johnny has been writing.
Pauline McLynn
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Walking along Oxford Street on Saturday pulling a shopping trolley that my mother bought me. I remember saying, “I’m never going to use that!” and there I was, very grateful to have it in my life. She died before Christmas and I can’t ring her to tell her that she was right.
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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I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.
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My mother, because now I have two sons and I have help around me – including my family – I can't imagine having four little ones under the age of nine, as she did.
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