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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Sally Mann Photographer
On the island of Bequia—one summer, out of the blue, a benefactor (thank you, Charlene) flew our entire family there and put us up in a cliffside house that was a weird mixture of Gaudí and Fred Flintstone and where we went to sleep at eight and got up at five. In between we read, swam, hiked, and unknowingly enjoyed the last moment before the irrevocable shear of adolescence set in.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2018 source ↗
Archie Panjabi British actress
When I got a doctorate from my alma mater, Brunel. My mother always wanted me to become a doctor.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2018 source ↗
David Guetta French DJ
When I had my first kid and when I had my first big success with I Gotta Feeling.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2017 source ↗

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