If I was 40 again.
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More air miles.
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If everybody was kind.
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The eradication of poverty would be nice, but at the moment, a double macchiato.
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Not having come from a class that understands how the world works.
Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
Needless aggression and bullying.
Working in an abattoir.
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