Marian Keyes
Irish writer
Last Tuesday, lying on the couch, watching Schitt’s Creek with my husband. Happiness is the small, ordinary days, not the big, up-in-lights ones.
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Last night, having dinner with my husband, John, my son, Jonathan, and his girlfriend, Maude.
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Work-wise, joining the National Theatre when I was 21.
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