Fewer night shifts.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t have anything that I want to change. I’m sure I did in the past but I can’t recall, which means it wasn’t that big a deal.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2022 source ↗
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All the times I was mean to someone.
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Some of the neuroses of my 20s. I knew I had a great talent, but I thought it was unmarketable because I felt ugly.
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