I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Some of those late nights.
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Not getting older at each birthday, but I appreciate it beats the alternative.
I would have been better with money.
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I'd have a good, encouraging start in school – I think I'd be a different person, with fewer anxiety attacks.
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View profile →A gazillion years ago I was in Gucci with Melanie Blatt, and I attempted to sit down on a chair that wasn’t there. I did a full-on stuntwoman backward roll, landed in a ball of the floor and laughed so hard I wet myself. Everybody in the shop moved to a different section.
An ambulance driver.
That things change.
As a great mother, wife and songwriter.
Not scrolling on my phone as much as I do.
When my children were small and used to play together, be creative, and were just in that innocent bubble.
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