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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2024 source ↗
When I hit 30 and managed to get a council flat in London. It was in the most terrible state, but it was bliss to have a flat of my own.
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.
Well, when in 1994 he was elected and I was given the privilege of introducing him to South Africa as our new president and to the world, I sort of whispered to God and said, “God, I don’t really mind now. I mean, if I die now, it would be almost the perfect moment.
My first week in New York in 1978, when I was about to start as a writer at Time. And my first week in the south of France after retiring from my job of 25 years as editor of Vanity Fair.
At the beginning of 2019, I brought my entire family with me on my honeymoon to Bora Bora.
My self-criticism.
My younger self for not believing in her.
Being mean online.
When I was 11, I went down a water slide and my bottoms didn’t go with me. Everyone saw my bare white butt.
She was a fun, silly girl who wrote positive songs that helped others – and she was a good mama.
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