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Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗
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A continuous in-breath.
Charles Dance
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Comforting, uplifting, all consuming.
Jimmy Akingbola
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I am not sure I’ve really been in love.
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When I was doing my gold swimming badge. I had to get undressed in a swimming pool and had forgotten my gym kit, so the teacher gave me a kit two sizes too small. In the water, I got my arms up over my head to get the shirt off and they locked. I sank to the bottom of the pool and sat there until a girl jumped in and dragged me back up again.
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A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
I am my biggest disappointment.
I have the invisibility of a middle-aged woman. I live in Brighton, and feel for the first time in my life that I belong. My kids are safe, my husband’s in a good place and we have a roof over our head: I can’t imagine needing more than that.
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