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Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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