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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Weirdly, sometimes exhaustion keeps me awake. If I am really tired, I won’t sleep well.
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James Bay
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Everything in my head.
So many things. Every headline in the newspaper, global warming … the list goes on.
Christy Turlington Burns
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The fact that at least 300,000 women die every year from pregnancy and childbirth-related issues that are largely preventable.
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Less phone use.
For being joyful.
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To trust in the process.
Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
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