Not following through on things.
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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.
Acting like the good little girl.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗
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I just lack the basic fact-finding instinct.
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To a man whose heart I broke at 17.
I would not toy with people's affections as much.
Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.
Worrying about my children.
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