My niece, Petra Janney, who got her pilot’s license to rescue animals from rural kill shelters and have them placed with different pet adoption agencies.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Margaret Atwood: she’s an empathic human being who writes books that help me be a better person.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2015 source ↗
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Gabor Maté. He is very eloquent and articulate about the role of trauma in our lives.
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Nothing. I fell asleep while I was getting a shave. When I woke up, the barber said, “No one has ever fallen asleep with a razor at their throat.” And I was like, “Bro, I have three boys under five – I sleep when I can.”
Probably last night, when I went into my sons’ bedroom and kissed them on their smelly heads.
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