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I would instil confidence in my younger self.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
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Marie Kondo
Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host
I don’t have anything that I want to change. I’m sure I did in the past but I can’t recall, which means it wasn’t that big a deal.
I would have been better with money.
I would build relationships. I would remember people’s significant moments. I would not fear closeness.
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Teachers at my school, for being such a smartarse.
Cleaning around the feet of John Malkovich with industrial carpet cleaner while he was trying to learn lines in the foyer of a theatre.
Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.
I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.
Pyramid Song, by Radiohead, live.
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