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What keeps you awake at night?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What would you like to leave your children?
Death & what remains
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Things I wish I’d done better that day.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 February 2026 source ↗
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Adjoa Andoh
English actress
Everything: I worry about whether the window frames need replacing, did I answer that email, how long my face is going to hold up, world peace, poverty…
The children. As a mother you are constantly worrying whether you’ve done the right thing.
It’s my snoring that keeps Loreto awake!
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View profile →Being a parent.
Flashes of hubris.
A strong sense of being loved and a hopefulness for their life ahead.
A net positive from my time on Earth.
Slow but trying.
Being present where you are.
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