Being in love while organizing my closet.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What does love feel like?
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Originally asked
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.
Being at one with yourself.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 February 2000 source ↗
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Judy Blume
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A balmy, moonlit evening in Key West. George and I are enjoying a pasta dinner on the balcony overlooking the ocean. Ella Fitzgerald is singing in the background.
Being with those that I love, and they have no problems.
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I don’t deplore anything about myself, but I am a perfectionist.
As the Queen of Rock’n’Roll. As a woman who showed other women that it is OK to strive for success on their own terms.
Too many times I had people try and make decisions for me. The assumption that I needed that was a big mistake!
Like a dryer going off in your stomach.
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