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What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
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View all 192 →Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
Maggie O'Farrell
Irish-British novelist
Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.
Watching the news. Human life seemed pretty cheap in 2024.
Probably watching some poor abandoned cat or dog being nursed back to life by a stranger on YouTube.
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View profile →To my Latin teacher – I was very naughty.
Having someone to love.
Swimming down the Thames on a full moon night 10 years ago. It was dangerous, but extremely joyful.
At the BBC, in the old days, a piece of paper was sent to various households for them to report on what they’d watched that week. In my early 20s, I collated the data. It was deeply boring.
Never getting back to a size 12.
An actor or a nun.
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