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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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George Saunders
Short-story writer and novelist
Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
Ted Danson
American actor
I am a bit of a Pollyanna – I spend most of my day happy.
Every morning when I go into our three-year-old’s room. He’s so happy to see you, it’s a moment of heaven.
Probably as a small child in a pool in my mother’s arms.
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