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Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
It’s all a learning experience, even if it’s a shit time.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 April 2021 source ↗
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I would have spent more time practising and got a proper lawyer to sort out my first album contract.
Sheena Easton
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I read too much science fiction to mess with anything. I’d be terrified that, by changing something, my kids wouldn’t be mine.
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View profile →In the hospital after my C-section, hanging out with my new baby, feeling very, very happy and grateful.
As somebody who brought joy to people.
Having my family in closer proximity, but that’s what comes with living in another country.
Maybe the night we drove a Hummer in Kabul and went to a cafe that Osama bin Laden supposedly used to frequent.
A veterinarian, but I decided against it because it required too many years of schooling; I wasn’t great at school.
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