Laurence Fox
English actor and activist
My children doing what they’re told.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
One of those robot vacuum cleaners.
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An eighth day in the week – just for me, no one else.
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I have the invisibility of a middle-aged woman. I live in Brighton, and feel for the first time in my life that I belong. My kids are safe, my husband’s in a good place and we have a roof over our head: I can’t imagine needing more than that.
A better knee and better lungs.
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Like somebody’s painted the world a different colour.
My wedding day, eight years ago.
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