A love of laughter and a shared belief that life is a dream.
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Originally asked
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.
Being able to share a confidence.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗
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My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
The inability to listen.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
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