When I was 11 and we got Sky TV.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2003 source ↗
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View all 577 →With time and experience you figure stuff out, so I am happiest right now.
About half an hour ago, watching through the window as my dad and two-year-old daughter walked to the paper shop together.
Right now. I live in the present.
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Modesty and humility.
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