Right now, like I have no intention of going anywhere else.
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Like you’ve got hot-water bottles all over you.
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Terence Conran
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All-embracing: when you find it, you don’t want to let it go.
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Like falling – endlessly – and then discovering you have wings.
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Like a cosy cloud of softness coupled with an orthopaedic mattress underneath.
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