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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Like nothing else, I guess.
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Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
Bees humming in a tree of blossom.
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Not feeling like you have to be anywhere else.
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A lawyer. I did work experience and was sent to the public gallery at the high court. The man in the dock was a 50-year-old accused of buggering a cat on the Metropolitan line. I decided to become a musician instead.
I’m sure it’s a cliché but I’d like to see as many of my friends and family as possible in that day. So I’d have my family around, I’d have my friends around, just to clock in with them.
To the British public generally. They know why.
I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
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