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What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
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Reading a newspaper.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
Three days ago. I don’t even know why. Sometimes I just feel emotional about how vulnerable humans are.
On Friday: my daughter won her volleyball game and my mom sent me videos, because I couldn’t be there. I cried wishing I’d been there to cheer her on.
When I read about the abuse of Baby P.
I am not a crier.
A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
I’ve had a few hairy scrapes as a scuba diver.
I am mortified that we went into Afghanistan, promised to liberate the female population and, 20 years later, dumped them in a situation as bad, robbing girls of their futures.
A foreign correspondent.
A few zeros on my bank balance.
The music journalist Paul Morley described me as bland.
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