I wouldn’t because everything is connected with everything else.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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.
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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.
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