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In elementary school. I loved learning.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Ronnie Wood
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Right now is a pretty good time in my life. I am existing on three-monthly check-ups, but, yeah, I am very grateful.
Bonnie Raitt
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As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
Olivia Williams
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People are often traumatised by the sleeplessness in the first years of their children’s lives, but I was insanely happy to be married and have two children. The only dark cloud was how much we were loathed for having babies who slept through the night.
Now, because of my marriage and because since September 2019 I’ve been free of clinical depression.
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For the service I gave to the black folk.
Pride, joy and freedom, but also hard, a struggle and work.
My mother, because she is vivacious, amazing, brilliant, giving, strong and powerful.
A Donny Hathaway song called Be Real Black For Me.
My mentally ill brother going to juvenile hall when he was 14. It led to his incarceration from 14 to almost 40.
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