Joan Jett
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2015 source ↗
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Shirley Ballas
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I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
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I’d give myself some fashion sense.
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Remembering to do things in order, because I have to transcend my nature, which is haphazard.
When I am completely absorbed in something, such as when I pick up my guitar and have a little sing.
I started playing football too old.
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