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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Wherever I’m sitting, once I finish this questionnaire.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2017 source ↗
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I was very happy to be alive when I surfaced after my yacht, Drum, capsized in the Fastnet Race in 1985. I was in an air pocket for 40 minutes, and had to take off my long johns to be able to surface.
Five to 10, when I was just playing out and I didn’t realise I was a girl. Before my boobs came in, basically.
Now, because of my marriage and because since September 2019 I’ve been free of clinical depression.
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The way I allow myself to talk to myself.
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