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The Happiness Course

JUST as Family and Friends Divided had become Friends Reunited and the wretched Trump era laid to rest, Harry and Meghan gave their Oprah interview and a whole new Grand Canyon opened up again. This chasm really surprised me because my team was astonished to discover that I wasn’t on the Sussexes’ side.

I swear I did not come across all Piers Morgan. I didn’t say: ‘That was performance art, staged by two millionaires and a billionaire.’ But, even as I tried to exercise restraint, I could hear the disappointment flowing through the cables that lie under the ocean that separates us.

When I protested that the!’ fireball of the interview was made to Harry they were married, I didn’t bother to send an email. If there is one thing I have learned in life it is this: just let go.

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