Charlotte Church
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Procrastination.
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Originally asked
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 get distracted by anything and everything, so all my projects finish just before the deadline. Sometimes, it’s a bit too tight.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗
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Picking my nose.
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My grandma, who died a few years ago, because I wasn’t able to see her on my last visit to Georgia.
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
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