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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗
In my 30s, I was staring at a pair of expensive boots in a shop window when the photographer Gordon Parks came up behind me. He instantly understood, because he grew up even poorer than me; he made me buy them on my credit card.
A birthday present I hoped would mean a lot to the person. I had their family history researched and a book made.
I bought my BMW in 2014 with cash, because I was bankrupt and had no credit. But I was in Kinky Boots, so I was finally making some money.
When I first started at The Connaught, I bought a pair of antique diamond earrings at Fred Leighton in New York.
Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.
Yesterday: my old dog, Kim, has cancer, and I have to let him die now.
My epitaph says: 'We'll make this a comedy yet.' I've already planned it.
Jimmy Carter, for his wisdom and courage in going to meet Hamas.
Acting like the good little girl.
To a man whose heart I broke at 17.
Kiefer Sutherland, Katherine Parkinson, Guy Pearce, John Waters, Charlotte Church, Patricia Hodge
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