I would be a better, faster, and more faithful writer of letters and e-mails, and returner of phone calls.
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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.
The age. I would like to be 30 years old now.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 December 2019 source ↗
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