Carlos Acosta
Cuban ballet dancer
The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My failures have taught me more than the successes, so not much.
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I would have come out earlier.
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All the hanging about.
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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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An apocalypse escape vessel – a steel hull ice-capable sailing boat for all the family that has almost zero electronics and is manual operation throughout – armed with an array of weaponry.
For my dad not to have known our boys.
He knew where life was to be found.
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