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Gossip and backstabbing.
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Values & belief
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Willful ignorance.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
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