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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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What most recently made you cry?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring late-stage question in The Guardian Q&A, with materially different answers on publisher-hosted pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The rest is silence.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 February 2026 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 51 →Being alive on Earth is challenging and I like to believe that whatever happens after is filled with peace and ease.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
That’s the 64-million-dollar question.
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In despair, because of my wife’s illness.
Isn’t it enough just to be remembered?
Curious, energetic, droll.
Edward Bond, the playwright, said I was like a turd flowing on the effluent of British culture.
To my father, who was aggressively indifferent to what I was doing. He did say sorry to me when he was dying and I don’t think I was very gracious.
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