Adeel Akhtar
British actor
I fell off a ladder, landed on my back, got up and was fine.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 June 2018 source ↗
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View all 209 →There are so many instances when I’ve come very close to death that it’s difficult to pick one.
When my first husband died, because it felt like my life was over, and it was challenging to keep in life at the time.
Gary Numan
British musician
I was an air display pilot for 15 years, and watched most of my friends die in crashes. When the children came along, I got out of it.
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When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.
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