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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I will let you know when I find out.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 March 2024 source ↗
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Am I enjoying it too much to find out?
When interviewing Idi Amin of Uganda in 1975, he shouted: “We have ways of dealing with people like you.”
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