Telling a story to my son about my brother.
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I genuinely can’t remember crying.
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Andy Murray
British professional tennis player, 2005–2024
Driving home on my own, thinking about the last 18 months, which have been really difficult, and getting back to playing tennis again without any pain in my hip. It was happy crying.
I cried watching the movie Coco with my daughter.
At the election of Joe Biden, thinking we were out of the woods. Wrong.
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View profile →I was happiest in every aspect of my life in the 1990s, when I was married to Paddy [King, a management consultant] and we had the two children and my mum lived with us, and Countdown was the biggest show on Channel 4.
Independent, curious and funny.
Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.
Like I would die for them in a nanosecond.
My aeroplane, a Diamond DA42. It’s a twin-engine aircraft and I bought her brand new to fly around the world solo. Very sadly my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer about six weeks before I was due to take off, in May 2017, and she died early June. After that, I lost interest in doing it.
There are one or two relationships where I’d see the red flags much earlier.
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