Growing three brains.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
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I couldn’t care less.
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I called Elizabeth McGovern Elizabeth Montgomery throughout a show. But, bless her, she didn’t say anything.
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