When were you happiest?

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

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Recorded Mary J Blige said elsewhere, not written here
When I was little kid, before I knew what worrying was about.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 April 2010 source ↗

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Paapa Essiedu British actor
I was a happy kid. I had quite a small life: I grew up in Walthamstow and didn’t really leave east London. I didn’t go to the South Bank for the first time until I was 18 years old.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2023 source ↗
Aidan Gillen Irish actor
I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2017 source ↗

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