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When Peta picked me to be on their first Times Square anti-fur billboard.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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When my husband and I first said we loved each other, in our student flat in Cambridge.
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When there’s a big Sunday lunch and all my children are there.
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When I am up in the air and about to hit the water, literally and metaphorically.
August 16, 1985. My dad took me and my brothers Andre and Tony to see the Fresh Fest at the Nassau Coliseum, on Long Island. We saw Whodini, the Fat Boys, and Grandmaster Flash. Greatest day of my life. The births of my children were big days, too, but billions of people have children—only 15,000 people saw that show.
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