Paapa Essiedu
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A really bad habit of eating sweets before I go to sleep.
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Inconsequential things like whether my basketball team, the Portland Trail Blazers, can get it together for the play-offs.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 May 2021 source ↗
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Fran Healy
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Worry – I am a terrible worrier.
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Anything from the concept of human mortality to a faux pas I made at a party in 2005.
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