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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I think that’s a thesis.
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Luke. It’s hard growing up with a heroin addict, and I treated him in his vulnerability in a way I would never have treated anyone I worked with.
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Loved you in Dallas.
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Actress, mother, grandmother.
Well, I’m always right.
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