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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I got dropped from two record deals when I was 14 and 17.
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Not hearing the Ellington band live.
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Any lost match is, of course, disappointing, but every loss is a lesson to be learned.
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Getting an honorary ambassadorship from the president of Kosovo in July.
Frank Sinatra singing My Way.
That I didn’t think I knew everything.
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