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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.
A few years ago in Vermont, when I eloped with Trish to have a civil partnership ceremony.
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Richard Branson
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The births of my kids and my wedding spring to mind.
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I am always happiest tucked up at home with my family.
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I have become progressively happier as I’ve got older. It’s to do with not striving as much.
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Realising that if they were drowning, you’d try to save them.
Catastrophising.
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