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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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What most recently made you cry?
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My husband is the kindest, funniest, most strange and wondrous person I know.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗
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Clive Stafford Smith. He campaigns for prisoners on death row in the US.
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Not being born a boy.
Swimming in the North Sea at midnight, surrounded by phosphorescence.
Someone else to write my books.
In August, when my middle sister called to tell me her breast cancer had spread to her spine, pelvis and bones. It turned out not to be true.
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