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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
This isn’t a complaint, but obscurity would be nice. You can’t have a bad day in public because everyone’s got phones.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
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