Too controlling about silly things like timings or not having toxic cleaning products in the house.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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.
I never let it go.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2021 source ↗
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