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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.
I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2017 source ↗
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