The question
What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Telling a story to my son about my brother.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗
After the initial travel ban debacle, I wept with joy at all the good people who came out against this fascistic edict.
When I heard John Noakes had died.
Watching the 2015 movie Aloha.
I teared up when I did a voiceover for my memoir while talking about my mother-in-law, whom I adored and miss so much.
Immunity to cruelty.
Redemption. People can be redeemed, goals can be redeemed.
“You’re selfish.” It was a friend.
More time with my boys.
When I worked at a dog food company shovelling the exterminated rats.
Because it’s in one of my songs, War and Peace.
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