Julian Sands
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Being exquisitely alive.
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A blurred, warm state of total acceptance and joy.
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Hayley Squires
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Essential, like oxygen.
So many different types. When I first met my husband, electric and vital. When I first held my boys in my arms, an overwhelming flood of defiant protection and magic.
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A wonderful, terribly exciting disease.
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As having been loving and fun.
To Sophie, for not being a better parent.
I wouldn’t have hurt as many people, and I would have thought more before speaking.
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