Karamo Brown
American television host, personality and actor
Selling newspapers outside the grocery store for two years.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A really bad film for no money: the director had no idea what he was doing and I was wondering: why am I here?
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2021 source ↗
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I haven’t really had a job. I used to work at my dad’s garden centre in my late teens, but it was just messing around.
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A ring I bought at Reinstein Ross for myself after a big break-up. It was kind of shallow.
I would have skipped the time my daughter was nine to 13, when I was in a toxic relationship.
People who have ghosted me for my politics.
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