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When I had my first kid and when I had my first big success with I Gotta Feeling.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When each of my three children was born.
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When Molde won the Norwegian premier league in 2011, the year the club was 100 years old.
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On my wedding day in Oxfordshire, six years ago.
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Probably when I finish a race.
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Lack of humility, the absence of goodness.
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