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When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
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This is going to horribly upset my wife, my children and my grandchildren, but it was when I did The Greatest Snowman last year for Channel 4. Being let loose on an Austrian mountainside to build snow sculptures was my happy point, and who knew I’d find an icy G-spot at nearly 58.
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In kindergarten, riding my bike and making objects out of clay.
Chris Ware
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The day my daughter, Clara, was born, and pretty much every day since.
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I thoroughly enjoyed high school in Nairobi: it was before everybody had a camera on their phone. I experimented with fashion and hairstyles that I am glad I don’t have any record of.
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The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
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