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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Stress is bad for your health.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗
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Kellie Maloney
Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician
Choose your friends wisely.
The more you face shame and stare it in the eyes and talk about it, the less potent it is.
When something is half price in a supermarket, always find out why.
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I cry all the time. Films can tip me over. Especially Pixar ones. I alarmed my kids when we went to see Coco – I was a mess. I cried at the Elton John gig at Glastonbury.
I don’t think we’re meant to know.
Comparing themselves to other people.
Farting in front of Colin Firth.
Bar and buffet at Top Ten Bingo in Greenford. A lot of the old people were quite bigoted.
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