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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I hope that it exists. I'm not sure I can fit everything in before then.
Rosanna Greenstreet, Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2005 source ↗
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View all 57 →I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
I think we’re definitely gone, but I do think people leave traces everywhere from what they did in life, and live on and continue to make an impact through the ripple effect of that.
When my kids ask, “What happens when we die?” I say, “Do you remember the place you were in before you were born? I think we go back there.”
More from Alan Titchmarsh
View profile →Losing the people I love.
I get up at 7am. No radio. No telly. Quiet. I feed the chickens and the cat. Cup of tea. Read the paper. On my own - half an hour just to come round.
Having a family can be a rude awakening for some people but it wasn't like that for me. I've absolutely loved it and I still do. I've got two daughters, Polly and Camilla, in their late 20s now. You get these people who say, "Wait for the terrible twos," and, yes, they've had the odd flounce, but they've got increasingly joyful to be around. My wife Alice and I are very close to them and value their company hugely.
Eric Idle’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. That’s me, really.
My old French teacher Madame Hawksworth stopped me in Ikley car park and said, 'We never thought you'd amount to much.'
That I have lost both my parents.
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