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In rehearsals. The play is very funny about mothers and daughters, but one of the gags hit a raw nerve.
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Watching the South Korean film Past Lives. I was on a plane and weeping uncontrollably.
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Really? We have to keep bringing up the Nobel debacle?
Julian Lloyd Webber
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Our beautiful cat was so ill that we were hours away from having her put down. Somehow, we’ve managed to nurse her back to full health again.
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In the last year, when I realised that I didn’t want to be in the relationship that I was in.
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