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The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2018 source ↗
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I am not studious enough. I get easily distracted.
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Control freakery in the kitchen.
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Their ability to make me laugh from the gut.
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Ingratitude. Taking advantage of others.
Anything underneath me in water I can’t see to the bottom of.
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