When Brad and I got married. We had to struggle for it. It involved a nationwide speaking tour, lobbying Congress and campaigning intensely. We were the first couple to get our marriage licence in West Hollywood.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Right here, right now.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2003 source ↗
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Jo Brand
English entertainer
I don’t tend to rank happy times.
When my kids were little – and now, in my old age.
Katharine Hamnett
English fashion designer
Camping with my parents in the south of France. We went every year with the beautiful bell tent they made on a sewing machine. We even had a lavatory tent which was fabulous except, one day, it blew away with my father in it.
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