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Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
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I sang in Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in a choir as a kid. The final movement, In Paradisum, is one of the most beautiful, seemingly simple pieces of music. So I’ll have that, please.
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