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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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That we waited so long to have children, we only have two.
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Citizens around the world blaming others for their personal disappointments, othering them, labelling them, terrorising them with hate-filled rhetoric and shutting the doors of their hearts.
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