When I was 11 and we got Sky TV.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Whenever I’m with my kids.
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My college years, when everything was possible and I felt physically invulnerable.
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Finding out I was pregnant when I’d been told it would be difficult to have children.
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Being an uncle brings me utter joy.
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