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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
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An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
A brilliant hi-tech, low weight tent.
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I collect old costumes: I have one of Johnny Cash’s, and Liberace’s shoes.
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Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.
Describing the plot of Roma.
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