When, as a university freshman, I would go to the ocean in the summer and free-dive all day long.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A taco truck on every corner.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 29 March 2018 source ↗
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