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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Lost in a piece of music.
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Rose Tremain
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When I first met Richard, in 1992, on a British Council writers’ tour of Adelaide. We were drinking Australian lager while parakeets squawked rudely in the neighbourhood gumtrees.
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Swimming down the Thames on a full moon night 10 years ago. It was dangerous, but extremely joyful.
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English musician
I've often reached the dizzying heights of ecstasy holding a pint of frothy seasonal ale in Fagan's pub, chatting away with Tom the landlord.
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