People who can’t wait to argue.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I hate it when my little brothers don't close their mouths when they're eating.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2019 source ↗
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When people are disingenuous.
Greed, lack of empathy. Same thing.
After the third time someone’s late, we can’t be friends any more.
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They treat me as a regular person.
Being grateful for what you have.
Biting my nails.
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.
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