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Whenever I’m with my kids.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Wandering around with my sketchbook in some lovely Italian town.
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At college: missing lectures to rehearse plays and go daytime drinking. Oh, and the baby’s birth.
In bed this Saturday.
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When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
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