I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
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A few haircuts.
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That I didn’t think I knew everything.
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