I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
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A recurring late-stage question in The Guardian Q&A, with materially different answers on publisher-hosted pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The worms get to feast.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗
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View all 53 →I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
You have to go to the end of the line.
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View profile →I wanted to be in the circus.
People having really loud conversations on their phones in public places.
A brilliant hi-tech, low weight tent.
Not feeling old but everyone treating you that way.
The very first day that I was filming Top Gear, for which I was so unqualified because I’d only ever driven a Fiat Uno. I got into a DB7 Vantage Volante outside the Aston Martin factory, put my foot on the accelerator and bunny-hopped across the gravel because I’d forgotten to take the handbrake off.
Panic and euphoria.
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