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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My sister’s death – I would love to meet her kids. [Karen Grammer was 18 when she was abducted, raped and murdered.]
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Jeremy Vine
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I’d stop my teenage self worrying about how my life was going to pan out.
I’d swap out a few boyfriends.
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I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
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This morning, surrounded by my children and my wife, Kayte.
I would borrow from Peter Sellers: Glenn Miller’s In The Mood.
Thirty seconds ago. I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.
My two middle children, Mason and Jude. They will know why.
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