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A few nights ago I was crying in my sleep, dreaming of my dead parents.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗
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Julia Stiles
American actress
On a plane. I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching Bridesmaids and start crying.
Lauren Laverne
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The Strictly Come Dancing final almost destroyed me. I was howling all the way through – John and Johannes and then Rose and Giovanni. Oh my God.
John Grisham
American writer and lawyer
When my mom died, on 18 January this year.
Listening to a song that my brother-in-law – the brother of Jason, my first husband – wrote, about how hard it was to live without his brother.
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A 1955 Jaguar XK120. It was not in very good condition and, little by little, I brought it back to its former splendour.
Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.
In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
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