Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
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A world where greed rules.
Pain of any sort.
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