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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.
Standing up while eating.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
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Angela Griffin
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Catastrophising.
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Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
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Short-term memory.
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They take my calls.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
That I’ll die worrying.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
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