I’d drink less alcohol in the 90s.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I wish I hadn’t been a heavy smoker for so many years.
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I would care less about what people think.
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That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
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I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
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A Chanel dress. I bought it with my first proper paycheck and it was ridiculously expensive. It is also hideous.
Not getting into MI5.
A driving licence.
An astronaut. I still do.
I went to a state school, so had to learn ancient Greek from scratch at Oxford.
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