The question
How would you describe what love feels like to you?Originally asked
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
Like someone is hitting your heart with a cricket bat.
Like having a foundation.
Safe and peaceful. It gives you a sense of ease.
It’s like all your emotions are apples and they get crushed all at once into cider.
I think that’s a thesis.
Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
Haven’t done it yet.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
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