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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Laughter first and foremost, acceptance, and love.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 August 2024 source ↗
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Discretion and good cheer.
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