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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
You have to ride the wave and never wait for it to be calm, because it never will be.
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Redemption. People can be redeemed, goals can be redeemed.
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Minimum effort, maximum satisfaction. That’s the way everyone should live.
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View profile →If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
I didn’t email my grandfather enough before he passed away.
Rapping the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme on national television.
That my work has given deaf children more confidence in themselves and a sense of ownership of who they are.
My dad’s family, for fake drowning when I was 12 on holiday in France – it caused such embarrassment that we had to leave. All because I wanted to get the inflatable ring off my brother. It still haunts me. I guess acting was always going to be my future.
“I’ll tell you later.” They never do.
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