People who do not love. If you are not loving, you are not living. Why wouldn’t you love? What’s the problem?
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A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not being honest.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗
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Ungratefulness.
People’s need to feel superior to others. All it does is cause judgment and hate.
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Hurtful, hard, like concrete but also the soft, silky, smooth, cool pillow that you lay your head on. It’s like birds singing in the morning with the aurora going over your head at night. That’s love for me.
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Lack of confidence in speaking to the opposite sex.
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