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Last night, having dinner with the family round the kitchen table.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Anna Paquin
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I don’t think there’s a single moment. Every day that you wake up and your family is healthy and OK is a daily gratitude and happiness for me.
Boris Becker
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I am happiest with my family.
Tom Ellis
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On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
Stephen Dorff
American actor
In the 90s. I am pretty happy now, but back then I didn’t have the heavier things that life brings as you get older.
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