Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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When were you happiest?
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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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.
Not trying something I really want to do.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2025 source ↗
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The loss of a child.
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My children ending up anything like me.
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None! We shouldn’t shame people for not having read “the greats”. There are always new greats emerging that may feel more relevant to our life experience, particularly female writers.
Myself. I didn’t know how to protect myself adequately when I was younger, and I think I would have experienced my youth differently if I had.
My late 20s, writing my third record.
Cheerful, sensitive, sassy.
Genuine love is given freely, not by force.
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