Ralph Ineson
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My kids, for the jokes. Some of them are pretty bad.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To strangers. Living in New York, I see individuals every day who are invisible to so many. I want to say sorry that so many of us think their pain and suffering is not our own.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗
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Rhys Ifans
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To anyone I’ve unintentionally hurt or upset.
Clara Amfo
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I never said it out loud, but I had this “Why aren’t you like the other mums?” energy towards my mum. Now I am an adult, I am happy that she came here from Ghana and remained who she was, but for a long time I resented her.
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As someone who didn’t waste a minute.
I might speed up a few details, but wouldn’t change anything, other than my dad still being here.
My father’s death before my marriage and motherhood.
Before kids, when I was 13 or so, on the back of my horse, running at full speed in an open pasture. Post kids, happiness happens often, but in more subtle ways. I now prefer the word “content”.
The birth of my daughter.
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