To myself for diminishing my gut feelings until quite recently.
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A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t really owe anybody any apologies.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2017 source ↗
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