My health anxiety. I am a bit of a hypochondriac. I hate that about myself and I’ve worked extensively in therapy on changing it.
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Originally asked
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.
Being hard on myself. I don’t want to pass that on to my daughters, so I’m trying to stop.
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To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
Making films exactly how I wanted.
A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
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