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Right where I am now.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When the book of my enemy was discounted.
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In my early 20s. I did my national service late, in Singapore. It was liberating to be in a new culture.
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In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
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