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Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.
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Jessica Brown Findlay
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During lockdown, I found out I wasn’t pregnant any more.
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
James Dyson
British inventor and businessman
Very recently, when a graduate at the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology gave the most brilliant speech on behalf of the students at our first graduation.
Rory Kinnear
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Last week I saw a moorhen feeding her chicks, and became overwhelmed by the miracle of parenthood and maternal sacrifice. And I hadn’t even been drinking.
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To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
I started stammering badly the first time I was on live radio, on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. When I think about it now it brings me out in a cold sweat.
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