My uncle, Edward Wood Dunham. He has Parkinson’s disease and faces every day with bravery, humor, and a gin-and-tonic.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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What most recently made you cry?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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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.
Peter Hitchens: he ploughs the lonely furrow.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2013 source ↗
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Karl Lagerfeld.
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My mother, because she is vivacious, amazing, brilliant, giving, strong and powerful.
Enrique Iglesias
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Elvira, the lady that took care of me when my parents weren't able to be there. She dedicated her whole life to me and my brother and my sister. Now I take care of her.
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Singing Abide With Me at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds [ringleader of the Great Train Robbery], March 2013.
Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.
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