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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
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Albert Hammond Jr.
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No. I mean, it depends on how you look at it. In the sense that we all have a piece of cosmic dust in us from the beginning – The Big Bang – then yes. But no, I don’t believe in heaven or hell.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
The rest is silence.
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View profile →I lose bank cards, I’m untidy, I get bored very quickly.
As somebody who loved people, was always curious, a loyal friend, a mother, wife, always positive and authentic.
I would have been better with money.
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
Worry – I am a terrible worrier.
Losing my memory and not being able to work.
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