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When my kids ask, “What happens when we die?” I say, “Do you remember the place you were in before you were born? I think we go back there.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2025 source ↗
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I think we become stars.
That’s the 64-million-dollar question.
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I’ve pooed myself a couple of times.
As a nice human being who gave a shit.
It would be my mum. She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive.
Manipulative greed and hate.
The Mona Lisa – I preferred the frame.
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