Losing my mind.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To be eaten by a shark.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗
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Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
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Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
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His holiness the Dalai Lama and his ability to forgive.
To have more time.
That my nose and chin will touch.
Long hair, big nose, large ass.
To myself. I am my harshest critic.
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