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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗
A lawyer. I did work experience and was sent to the public gallery at the high court. The man in the dock was a 50-year-old accused of buggering a cat on the Metropolitan line. I decided to become a musician instead.
Sounds cliched, but I always wanted to be an actor.
I just wanted to work in music. I didn’t want a real job.
A ballet dancer.
It’s already happened – HRT.
When I was 17 I didn’t visit my gran for six weeks as I was out partying. At the end of that summer she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I never saw the real her again. I would love to say sorry to her as I loved her so much.
Always sleep on any decision.
Kind, loyal and (slightly) mad.
I am a perimenopausal woman, so about two minutes ago, at a dog being adopted on Insta.
I constantly forget people’s names when they have literally just told me.
Ali Abbasi, Isabelle Huppert, Angela Hartnett, Emeli Sandé, Stockard Channing, Sara Pascoe
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