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Whining.
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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.
Not following through on things.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
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View all 256 →The tendency to withdraw into myself.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
My tendency to skip meals.
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I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
I remember really wanting to go into space. I liked the idea of flying.
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