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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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My mum died in her early 70s, and for the last six or seven years of her life she couldn’t move, didn’t speak. By the time our children were born, she was too ill to communicate. I haven’t many regrets in life, but I do regret that they never got to know her, even though she was still alive for a few years. They couldn’t see her warmth, her spirit, her courage.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2023 source ↗
I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗
Nobody has answered this one yet.