Whenever I’m swimming in the lido at London Fields.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
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