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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.
When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗
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