When were you happiest?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Recorded Jimmy Kimmel said elsewhere, not written here
I'm a happy guy in general, but the feeling of freedom and fun I got driving around with my friends in my first car is hard to top.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2020 source ↗

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George Saunders Short-story writer and novelist
Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2023 source ↗
Vera Lynn English singer and entertainer
When my daughter, Virginia, was born, in 1946.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 December 2009 source ↗

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