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My childhood summers in Trenton, Ohio, and starting work at Warner Bros.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 1995 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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During the first week or two of lockdown. We didn’t know what was coming and it didn’t feel dangerous at that point; there was just a real sense of family and hunkering down.
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People are often traumatised by the sleeplessness in the first years of their children’s lives, but I was insanely happy to be married and have two children. The only dark cloud was how much we were loathed for having babies who slept through the night.
Cycling around Martha’s Vineyard alone in the summer of 1976.
My college years when I was 17 to 19, before the responsibilities of adulthood, just doing the things that I was good at and liked – computers, maths, further maths (I was a geek).
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