As someone who made you think that anything’s possible. I did three marathons in a day once but walking the high-wire at Battersea Park station was the challenge I loved most because I had to master a skill.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As someone who had time for everybody.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2019 source ↗
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For being genuine.
She was surprisingly good at the harpsichord.
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Pulling Sandra.
When I met [my wife] Sandra. I was coming up 17. We met at the Two Puddings, a dance hall in Stratford.
The body of a 20-year-old.
That my mum and dad didn’t move to live by the sea, where we live, before they died.
A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
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