Hayley Atwell
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My best mate had a healthy baby girl about 45 minutes ago and named her after me. My heart is bursting.
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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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I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
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When my first child was born – something I thought would never happen.
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Camping in the bushveld with my man.
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Not following through on things.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
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