My Auntie Jane. She took me in, aged 10, and, after my mother died, healed my broken heart by filling our dining room with food and people. Still cooking at the grand old age of 89. My icon.
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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 April 2018 source ↗
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Anyone who can pick up a house spider with their bare hands.
My mother. I am always fascinated by her, and I get schooled every time I’m around her.
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In the car with my kids, singing Purple Rain.
Luke. It’s hard growing up with a heroin addict, and I treated him in his vulnerability in a way I would never have treated anyone I worked with.
As a broad who gave it a go.
That people listen to my voice when I speak.
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