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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Choose your friends wisely.
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To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.
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At the birth of my children; when Lennox Lewis was crowned undisputed world heavyweight champion; and the day I had my final gender reassignment operation.
A black Russian terrier – I paid almost £4,000 for him.
To my daughters and my partner, Tracey, for what I put them through with my transition.
Love comes in different aspects. There’s sexual love, companion love and unconditional love, and I think you only have unconditional love with your children or your pets.
The pope. I was brought up in the Catholic religion, and I think he is trying to make the church more accepting of all. He’s got a very hard job because the church is very stuck in its rightwing conservative ways.
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