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Perhaps a few drunken incidents – but I’ll keep the coat.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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Boarding school. It was horrible.
Jessica Brown Findlay
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My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]
My mum died in her early 70s, and for the last six or seven years of her life she couldn’t move, didn’t speak. By the time our children were born, she was too ill to communicate. I haven’t many regrets in life, but I do regret that they never got to know her, even though she was still alive for a few years. They couldn’t see her warmth, her spirit, her courage.
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View profile →My little sister Grace. In all the ways in which I am not capable or grounded or calm, she is.
Either pottering around on my own or performing, so I don’t know what kind of person that makes me.
Never getting the lead in the musical at school.
A couple of ex-boyfriends.
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