The current occupant of the White House.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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When were you happiest?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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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.
Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗
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Anything underneath me in water I can’t see to the bottom of.
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I’ve got vertigo, so anything to do with heights.
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I have a deep-rooted fear of being in trouble. I once tried to sneak into the back of a photography exhibition with my husband when one of our kids was in a pushchair. We’d arrived late and he suggested we go in through the gift shop and see the last room. As we poked our heads round the door, the security guard noticed us. I shouted, “That man’s trying to get in!”, then ran away.
In the orange blossom-filled streets of Seville, snogging on a park bench.
A sense of optimism.
Hey Ya, by OutKast.
I’d probably take out a lot of my 20s, when I was rude, annoying and a brat.
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