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It’s not all soft focus and wheat fields. Love songs can be about hate, fear, envy, lust and anger, because that’s part of love as well.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗
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It feels healthy and it makes your body tingle and you feel excited to be alive.
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Friendly and warm.
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Sitting on the fence – I will do anything to avoid confrontation.
Exactly what my parents left me: the knowledge of the difference between good and bad and right and wrong. Everything else is entirely up to them.
I stopped drinking 18 or 19 years ago, and in an argument someone who will remain nameless said: “Oh just go and have a drink.” It was nasty.
Other people get sad.
Carol Vorderman, because she’s stuck her head above the parapet to try to hold our bizarre politicians to account.
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