# What were the happiest years of your life?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 17, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-happiest-years-of-your-life/634998 "2012-09-17T19:38:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-happiest-years-of-your-life/634998/61 "2012-09-22T08:18:41Z")

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My twenties. We lived in a groovy little run down half-house in a suburb just outside the city mile. The house was built c 1900 and had an amazing bathroom with hand glazed majolica tiles and the kitchen had pink tiles with a black and white “racing stripe” frieze and an old double fireplace. We were newly married which for me meant that I was finally free of overly involved conservative parents and had my first car (an MG). I worked for the agency which meant I could walk to either of the two major hospitals from home and my husband would pick me up and we would have hot chocolate at a cafe before bed. Weekends we would walk to the city markets and buy veges and cheese and interesting old stuff at the bricabrac stalls. Then I got knocked up, fell victim to medical negligence, and spent the next few years trying to kill myself.

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