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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Tom Ellis
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On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
Josette Simon
British actor
I don’t have a happiest; I live in the now.
Paul Whitehouse
Welsh comedian
When I came round after being seriously ill. I’d had a dose of morphine, the sun was shining and I thought, “Ah yes, I live!”
Chrissie Hynde
American musician
A couple of hours ago: I got a text message to meet someone later.
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