Walking into a room filled with friends and family singing “Happy Birthday” to me and I am completely naked.
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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.
I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗
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Premature demise.
Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.
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View profile →An exciting idea. I usually write for an hour or so, and then I go to sleep.
I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut.
I’d like them to inherit my optimism.
Not for a long time.
I take my family on holiday. We went to Egypt just after Christmas. Golly, it’s expensive.
I’m a lucky woman – I was walking in the rain yesterday and was really happy.
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