The question
How would you want people to remember you?Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In a photo album of just one family.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗
Just to be remembered at all would be enough.
As someone who tried to keep learning, and wanted to help.
I will be dead, why would I care?
As someone who gave it a go.
The Prince and Princess of Wales for not knowing when to leave their home.
That I can’t write.
I would build relationships. I would remember people’s significant moments. I would not fear closeness.
Also my most triumphant: 2017 at the Royal Court. Julie Hesmondhalgh reads my psychologist’s report over two hours. Every excruciating intimate word of it. Extreme verbatim theatre. One night only.
Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.
I spent my life searching for family. I travelled around the world to look each one of them in the eye. Unfortunately, but understandably, for most of them, I am their biggest disappointment.
Clare Bailey Mosley, Clive Myrie, Joanne Froggatt, Neil Gaiman, Dervla Kirwan, Russell Howard
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