Trying too hard to be funny.
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Picking their nose and eating it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
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