Patricia Hodge
English actress
I spent the earlier part of my life being late for everything, so there was a joke that my tombstone would read The Very Late Patricia Hodge.
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Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As someone who made a difference.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗
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Meghan Trainor
American singer-songwriter
She was a fun, silly girl who wrote positive songs that helped others – and she was a good mama.
As someone who tried, who had dignity, and stuck to what she believed in despite the storms.
Kim Gordon
American musician and artist
As a generous soul.
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View profile →A few nights ago I was crying in my sleep, dreaming of my dead parents.
In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.
A 1955 Jaguar XK120. It was not in very good condition and, little by little, I brought it back to its former splendour.
Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
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