I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.
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As someone who had time for everybody.
It used to be worrying about football results.
When I met [my wife] Sandra. I was coming up 17. We met at the Two Puddings, a dance hall in Stratford.
That my mum and dad didn’t move to live by the sea, where we live, before they died.
A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
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