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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗
I had a midlife crisis and paid 70 grand for a Morgan AeroMax which looked just like Cruella de Vil’s car. I was in a permanent state of terror and soon sold it.
A Henry Darger painting. Sadly, I lost it in the divorce, but it was a great parting gift.
My five-litre Ford Mustang.
A sculpture by Glynn Williams; it cost £7,000 in the early 80s.
Teachers who recognise that each child is different.
A miniature pet elephant, one that is no bigger than a guinea pig.
I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.
Utterly relentless warmth and peace.
Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
Joan Jett, Romesh Ranganathan, Rory Stewart, Jeremy Deller, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Miriam Margolyes
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