What does love feel like?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Alan Cumming said elsewhere, not written here
Being hit on the head with a brick, and like a bowl of hearty soup.

Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2009 source ↗

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Julie Andrews English actress, singer and author
As you go through life, you discover so many forms of love – passionate, compassionate, familial, friendship. Love is hard to describe but it’s wonderful.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2019 source ↗
Tim Minchin Australian musician, writer, actor and comedian
Anxiety, mostly, once you have kids.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2020 source ↗

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