Our friends are sad and miss us for a bit but, hopefully, they find other people at the party.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Other people get sad.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗
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View all 51 →Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
We go back from whence we came.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
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View profile →Those mad thoughts. Did you turn off the air fryer? Have I booked my plane for tomorrow?
A 28ft motorboat, which sat in the water for two years because I was so busy working.
Sitting on the fence – I will do anything to avoid confrontation.
I stopped drinking 18 or 19 years ago, and in an argument someone who will remain nameless said: “Oh just go and have a drink.” It was nasty.
It’s not all soft focus and wheat fields. Love songs can be about hate, fear, envy, lust and anger, because that’s part of love as well.
Exactly what my parents left me: the knowledge of the difference between good and bad and right and wrong. Everything else is entirely up to them.
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