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Told myself we’d quit the bed habit when we left the countryside 😳

Celebrating @derekblasberg @sarahandelman brilliant book “Fast and Louche”

ASAP Rocky for Ray Ban is where it’s at

My grandsons

@christopher_astley BRILLIANT new show at @ninomiergallery

Date night @raoulsrestaurantnyc

Making new friends

Found my beloved long lost friend @littlenellcampbell at @hugoguinness beautiful show

Cats and books 🙌🏼 @justanidea @pillowcatbooks

Weirdo

Most Friday evenings you’ll find me here @mastbooks

Fallen in love with Tompkins

@toryburch @kingsleap beautiful show

Love the weirdness of this city

Kisses

My babies

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My Mama G @mamagena buy her brilliant book “On Our Knees”

First stop always at our local @lovelydayny

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i was made for loving you baby
you were made for loving me… a dump.

lost my martini virginity. I do not like dirty martinis. they are gross. however a gin martini, dry, extra twisty, is manageable and dangerous. here’s photo evidence of my first.

gurl is shook. r u guys crazy.

my first night out. loco doing Duolingo on the loo at 11:59pm. I had to delete duo for this reason. It’s like having a needy boyfriend. No offence duo.

pop riding.

Happy Dylan night of release.

Loco and I have matching sunglasses. She is unhappy about that. I am thrilled. Shout out @rayban

Loco, Owen and I on a test shoot. ;)))

TONIGHT I will be on @bbcradio1 with my absolute favourite @jodierosebryant . Jodie gave me my first ever interview, it’s full circle moment baby.

love you all.

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25 years later what I remember the most from that day was the paralysing, irrational fear that if the second tower fell sideways it might crush us. It seems crazy now as we were twenty blocks north of the towers, but I was three months postpartum and my protective instincts towards newborn Coco were exaggerated. My whole perception of reality changed that morning, and suddenly anything scary seemed possible. I also remember sitting with Christopher outside our local coffee shop on Hudson Street watching people walk towards home from Ground Zero after both towers fell. They looked like zombies - covered in ash, torn clothes, blank faces, clearly in shock. I still think of those people regularly - who they were, what they had seen, how far they had to walk to get home, many of them limping or bleeding. Despite the horrifying images in front of us, it seemed our whole neighbourhood felt better being out in public. The weight of what we’d all seen that day, with our own eyes, was too much to process in the solitude of our own apartments. We needed to see the expressions on other people’s faces to understand how we were feeling, and to know that what happened, which seemed so unbelievable, was actually real.

Ten years later I went to the @911memorial and cried my eyes out. What has stayed with me was hearing the voice messages on the answering machine of one of the passengers of flight 93 - friends just checking he wasn’t on the plane, then family worrying he might have been on the plane, then others just wanting to hear his voice on the greeting, and finally the last bits of hope that he might have escaped his obvious fate. It broke my heart, but it was also healing to be able to finally detach from my own experience of that day and really know what happened to the victims, especially my college friend Ray Rocha. I can still hear his laugh.

I will always remember, I will #neverforget

Photo by @christopherbrooks101

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FIRST 48H IN NEW YORK CITY! DO YOU MISS ME YET?

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🎨 💝 #fanedit #fanart Greetings from Slovakia!! @coco_brooks_

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loads of lovely bits

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Worcester and other places

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Our babies came home to celebrate the life of their extraordinary grandmother, and it was both the sweetest and the saddest. When we arrived at the church the vicar said there wasn’t an empty seat or a place left to stand, a testament to Caroline’s deep involvement in every aspect of our community from serving as Justice of the Peace and teaching reading at the nearby primary school to hosting meets at the farm and lending money to save the village shop. What a privilege to have witnessed her example and the love and admiration that surrounded her.

Thank you @marlston_farmgirl for bringing the beauty of the English countryside in springtime into the church

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People peopling

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Instagram lunch break

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@biascutmagazine knows how to throw a party

link to view & download photos in my story and below
https://www.joinswsh.com/album/89ih86dv5obf

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