My wife cleaning.
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Perimenopausal anxiety, the terrible feeling of impending doom, something awful happening to my children, writing deadlines. Apart from that, I’m quite chilled.
Fear of the future.
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When my son was born. Actually, probably a month after, when I got over the enormous responsibility of being a mum.
As good enough.
Better hearing.
Never making it into a Sondheim musical.
I would have gone to my singing lessons at Guildhall.
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