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In the car with my kids, singing Purple Rain.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 April 2018 source ↗
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German tennis player, coach, and commentator
I am happiest with my family.
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Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.
George Saunders
Short-story writer and novelist
Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
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