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Probably when I finish a race.
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Shappi Khorsandi
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Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”
Stephen Dorff
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In the 90s. I am pretty happy now, but back then I didn’t have the heavier things that life brings as you get older.
Douglas Stuart
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The summer of 1997. My husband, who is an American, gave up everything to come and live with me in Edinburgh when we were students, and we were so skint but we had so much fun.
Ted Danson
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna – I spend most of my day happy.
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