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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.
Discretion and good cheer.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗
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Knowing they are there for you.
Forbearance with my chronic tardiness.
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That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
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