Martin Sheen, simply the kindest and most fun-loving person and serious activist I’ve ever known. If Jesus was alive today he’d point to Martin Sheen and say, “That’s what I was talking about.”
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Anyone who speaks truth to power at the risk of their own safety.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2024 source ↗
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Elvira, the lady that took care of me when my parents weren't able to be there. She dedicated her whole life to me and my brother and my sister. Now I take care of her.
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My mother, Mary Davidson, for having me at 16 – a child herself – and raising me with very little.
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About five years ago, a half-tonne tree branch fell and missed me by three feet.
Not very concise.
Self-loathing that rises to the level of deploring.
Your heart walking around outside your body.
Not a child, which was short-sighted of me.
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