I don’t think there’s a single moment. Every day that you wake up and your family is healthy and OK is a daily gratitude and happiness for me.
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When I met my husband and had babies. They have made me happy ever since.
As a child playing in my parents’ garden in Birmingham, which they still have, and where my daughters play, swinging on my swing that my dad made for me.
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Sometimes the overwhelming realisation that I will one day die; but mostly that ShortList man from the tube throwing stones at my window.
Managing to find my wife and trapping her into marrying me.
There's a man at the tube who hands out ShortList magazine. He has never given up trying to make me take one. I admire that.
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