Discretion and love of New Orleans—my favorite city. These two go hand in hand.
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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.
I love that my true friends don’t think of me as that Judy, but as the Judy they’ve known for years, a woman, like them. And I love their senses of humor.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 April 2023 source ↗
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View all 65 →I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.
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That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
Their ability to open a bottle of wine.
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View profile →That we’re going down the tubes as a country (make that the whole world).
Really? Okay, if I have enough time I might go to Switzerland and drink the drink. I believe in euthanasia. What we do for our beloved pets, we should be able to do for our beloved humans or ourselves.
My phobias. I’m down to two, so I take that as a positive sign.
A balmy, moonlit evening in Key West. George and I are enjoying a pasta dinner on the balcony overlooking the ocean. Ella Fitzgerald is singing in the background.
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