David Hasselhoff
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This morning, reading a memorial card I wrote for my mother.
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Watching the news. Human life seemed pretty cheap in 2024.
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Over a YouTube clip about animals. "Laboratory animals see sunlight for the first time", or "elephant mourns his best friend the goat". I watch something like that every day and I'm always in pieces.
Orlando Bloom
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I lost my poodle, Mighty. He was out of my sight for just seven minutes; he went out on an adventure and didn’t come back, and was taken by a coyote, I think. It was awful, really painful; he taught me about love and loyalty, and how the connection between living beings can be.
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Clumsy, kind and excitable.
Whenever I’m swimming in the lido at London Fields.
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When people are rude to their waiter.
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