It’s really, really nice.
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Utterly relentless warmth and peace.
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Peaceful and joyful.
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Love makes me feel sick. I get sick with worry about my kids. It keeps me up at night.
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A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.
Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
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