When were you happiest?

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

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Cycling around Martha’s Vineyard alone in the summer of 1976.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2026 source ↗

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Joan Jett American singer, songwriter and guitarist
My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗
Don Warrington British actor
When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 February 2022 source ↗
Jesse Jackson American minister, activist and politician
In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2012 source ↗

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