I can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m not into self-deploring.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2019 source ↗
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No contest: seeing my grandchildren enjoying each other.
Discrimination, for any reason.
My husband, Paul, who is an enabler of the exuberance of his wife and five kids.
When I was raising my children.
The current occupant of the White House.
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