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When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Married, in my Georgian house, four cats. It lasted a day.
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The moment my daughter was born in 1999, because it took me seven years to conceive.
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About half an hour ago, watching through the window as my dad and two-year-old daughter walked to the paper shop together.
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Walking the dog on a beach in Dorset with my wife.
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