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Maybe Kate Moss.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Infinite money might allow me to achieve unbounded creativity.
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Everyone cutting out social media for one day a week.
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People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
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When I was a child and I got a new toy.
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We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.
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