Melanie Chisholm
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On my wedding day.
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Olivia Colman
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When my husband and I first said we loved each other, in our student flat in Cambridge.
Julian Lloyd Webber
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When I was 16, I’d just won full scholarships to both the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music, and felt like the world was my oyster.
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The day my daughter, Clara, was born, and pretty much every day since.
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