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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Good values and a lot of money.
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View all 44 →A sense of optimism.
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
Paul Kalanithi
Neurosurgeon and writer
Yet one thing cannot be robbed of her futurity: my daughter, Cady. I hope I’ll live long enough that she has some memory of me. Words have a longevity I do not. I had thought I could leave her a series of letters — but what would they really say? ... There is perhaps only one thing to say to this infant, who is all future, overlapping briefly with me, whose life, barring the improbable, is all but past. That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied.
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View profile →Pure happiness.
My very long to-do list.
When I got hit by a car in my home town.
I teared up when I did a voiceover for my memoir while talking about my mother-in-law, whom I adored and miss so much.
I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.
Nice, direct, loyal.
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