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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In my childhood, when I didn’t think about whether it was happy. It just was.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 October 2018 source ↗
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As I get older, I get happier.
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