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When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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This morning, because each day I feel happier.
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Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”
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In 1926 and in the maternity room.
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