Lauren Laverne
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It would have been lovely to have grown up in private like a lot of my friends.
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Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Trusting some men.
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Michelle Dockery
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Several haircuts and my belly-button piercing.
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I’d have been less precocious as a child (you grow up fast in New York). I’d have prolonged the naivety.
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I would never have smoked - I gave up years ago.
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