Now is pretty damned good.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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I'm happy a lot; the birth of children produced the biggest highs, along with parachuting.
Jerry Springer
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When my daughter, Katie, was born and when she got married.
Johnny Flynn
British actor and musician
When I was about eight, by a river waiting for my dad to finish fishing, eating a Mars bar, drinking a can of Coke and listening to Beat It by Michael Jackson on my Walkman. I remember feeling I couldn’t be happier.
Now, because of my marriage and because since September 2019 I’ve been free of clinical depression.
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That I couldn’t bridge the gap with my parents before they died. My mother died 10 years ago of Alzheimer’s, and my father died two years ago. He left when I was 11 and we got back in touch when I was 22.
If everybody was kind.
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