Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot for advocating that girls be educated.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Cathy Rigby. She was really good in that stage version of Peter Pan. No joke.
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Mike Leigh: his work is important.
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Child, loss or damage thereof.
People who are proud of their ignorance.
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