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Yesterday, because grief creeps up on you.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 December 2019 source ↗
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Ralph Ineson
English actor and narrator
On New Year’s day I was so hungover my hair actually hurt. I lay on the sofa with my daughter and we watched The Muppets for two hours and I cried with laughter.
Clive Myrie
British journalist, newsreader, and presenter
Watching the South Korean film Past Lives. I was on a plane and weeping uncontrollably.
Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Yesterday: my old dog, Kim, has cancer, and I have to let him die now.
Mary Berry
English food writer and television presenter
I had a little weep with joy 11 years ago when Thomas and Sarah had their IVF twins, safe and sound and perfect.
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A Christian Dior coat.
Last Christmas I was clipped by a train. Mum was dying so my head was elsewhere. I was walking home and had to cross one of those crossings that say, “Stop, look and listen.” I didn’t do any of those things, and I had my headphones in so I couldn’t even hear the train. It clipped my left elbow.
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