I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
We go back from whence we came.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗
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I will let you know when I find out.
Other people get sad.
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One’s created sense of self is not who you are. The present moment is all we have.
I’d give my younger self the lessons I’ve learned over the years, sparing myself the need to figure everything out so publicly.
Whenever I walk past an ice-cream shop, I just can’t not buy an ice-cream.
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