Joanna Scanlan
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Having someone to love.
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Being mum to my awesome children, Woody and Nelly. They make my day, every day. I do joke with them that I’m happy to pay for the therapy they’ll inevitably need in later years due to my terrible parenting.
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Deciding what and who I wanted to be early on in life.
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