Being at home, watching a good movie with my husband. Dining out with good friends.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Floating in a river full of fat trout.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 November 2020 source ↗
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Late one Sunday afternoon, my three-year-old granddaughter, out of the blue, took my hand and said she wanted to whisper something to me. Could we go for a ride around the block before we all sat down for dinner? Just the two of us? Holding hands as we walked to and from the car in the driveway: Bliss.
Waking up in the morning.
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I'm a happy guy in general, but the feeling of freedom and fun I got driving around with my friends in my first car is hard to top.
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