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If I was 40 again.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not scrolling on my phone as much as I do.
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If it took less than 14 hours to fly to New Zealand, that would be great. A super-duper-fast plane would be cool.
Ultimately, a bigger hallway.
Compulsory headphones for phone users in public.
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As a great mother, wife and songwriter.
When my children were small and used to play together, be creative, and were just in that innocent bubble.
An ambulance driver.
A gazillion years ago I was in Gucci with Melanie Blatt, and I attempted to sit down on a chair that wasn’t there. I did a full-on stuntwoman backward roll, landed in a ball of the floor and laughed so hard I wet myself. Everybody in the shop moved to a different section.
Some of those late nights.
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