I think we become stars.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring late-stage question in The Guardian Q&A, with materially different answers on publisher-hosted pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
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I don’t say that I’m perfect but there’s nothing that I deplore.
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