Bill Bryson
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When I had my catheter taken out, thanks for asking.
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When I am working on something I really like, or when I am alone with my son playing in the garden.
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Johanna Konta
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When I was a young girl in Sydney, I used to go running with my dad. I would wake him up at the crack of dawn and we had this route to the top of a golf course – we’d usually make it there for sunrise.
Zoë Wanamaker
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Getting married at Islington register office in 1994.
Tina Brown
British and American journalist
In my second year at Oxford University. There was much lolling over the side of punts on the river with languid male companions plying me with cheap champagne.
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I wish I'd never smoked.
Just In Time, by Nina Simone.
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