Julia Ormond
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A blurred, warm state of total acceptance and joy.
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Like driving a Ford Mustang with the top down across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun is setting and you have a dinner reservation in Sausalito.
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Sara Cox
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A full belly and a nice nap.
It is obsessive, it is glorious, it is everything that we’re put on this Earth to feel, all at once.
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Bloody radiator keeps banging. I think it needs air releasing but I don’t have a bleeding key.
I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.
My life won’t have full quality until we achieve equality for all.
My five-litre Ford Mustang.
When I read the story of a blind, bisexual goose called Thomas who had died in New Zealand after a lifetime of love for a swan called Henry. It sounds ridiculous but is entirely true.
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