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Like becoming warm after you’ve been cold.
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It makes you feel like you want to live.What is the worst job you’ve ever done? Doing the audiobook of the first book. It was hard. I couldn’t do that again.
Loud and noisy.
A mix – safety to be yourself, acceptance, a feeling of peace and reliance, but also challenge, whether that’s intellectual or emotional.
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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.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
The internet going down – but not just for me, for everyone.
To be here in this one moment.
Big. Funny. Man.
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