My mum looks after our kids all the time, but on the very few weeks she takes time off, doing it all is a big juggle. My mum is a combination of Mary Poppins and Angela Davis, so I’d clone her.
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A dog. (I don't have one because we're back and forth over the Atlantic and it would be cruel to leave it.)
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Playing with a dog. And we’re both drunk.
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Over a YouTube clip about animals. "Laboratory animals see sunlight for the first time", or "elephant mourns his best friend the goat". I watch something like that every day and I'm always in pieces.
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