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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I turned 30, married and had a place in Brixton. My flailing twenties were over, though the flailing continues.
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Now. I feel wiser and calmer than I’ve ever been.
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There are different flavours of happy, but I think my favourite is the quiet contentment when several generations of family are sitting together watching a crowd-pleaser like Harry Potter on the telly.
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