Your lowest moment is temporary.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Don’t overcook pasta.
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“I could never love you like that.”
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A great composer. I wrote to Benjamin Britten to tell him this and that he was my third favourite composer. For some reason he didn’t feel moved to reply.
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With an international holiday.
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Technically, Ibiza 1990, because of the amount of ecstasy I’d taken.
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My financial incompetence.
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