To keep trying to listen to yourself.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Life is not worth living if there is no one you would die for.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗
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View profile →I spent my life searching for family. I travelled around the world to look each one of them in the eye. Unfortunately, but understandably, for most of them, I am their biggest disappointment.
When I was a child, a member of staff at Wood End Assessment Centre [a former children’s home in Wigan] bellowed: “He copies them poems off of Bob Marley records.”
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