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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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There are different flavours of happy, but I think my favourite is the quiet contentment when several generations of family are sitting together watching a crowd-pleaser like Harry Potter on the telly.
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Phoning my dad to tell him we’d won the Edinburgh Perrier award with The League Of Gentlemen in 1997.
Kim Wilde
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These are the happiest days. I love the process of getting older and, sometimes, wiser.
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