In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas.
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Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
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My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
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On the island of Bequia—one summer, out of the blue, a benefactor (thank you, Charlene) flew our entire family there and put us up in a cliffside house that was a weird mixture of Gaudí and Fred Flintstone and where we went to sleep at eight and got up at five. In between we read, swam, hiked, and unknowingly enjoyed the last moment before the irrevocable shear of adolescence set in.
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Watching my children play together for hours when they were very young.
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