What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Esther Freud said elsewhere, not written here
Life’s too short to take offence.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2026 source ↗

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