I overthink everything.
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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.
The inability to laugh before 11 a.m.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2019 source ↗
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