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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Now is pretty damned good.
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I was a happy kid. I had quite a small life: I grew up in Walthamstow and didn’t really leave east London. I didn’t go to the South Bank for the first time until I was 18 years old.
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