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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.
I don’t tend to rank happy times.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2015 source ↗
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