Louis Smith
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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, by Roberta Flack.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Something tongue-in-cheek: Rescue Me.
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Suzanne Vega
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Something by Leonard Cohen, I haven’t figured out which song yet.
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I am not thinking about dying yet.
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I Gotta Feeling.
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Whole, full, lifted.
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