Adrian Dunbar
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Working in an abattoir.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
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Angela Hartnett
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Washing up in the Ford factory canteen in Dagenham.
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
Björn Ulvaeus
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A cabaret act with Agnetha, Frida and Benny. It was in a nightclub in Gothenburg and one night we had seven in the audience. It was before we found out that we were a pop group.
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Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”
Teachers who recognise that each child is different.
Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.
Utterly relentless warmth and peace.
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