That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2015 source ↗
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The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
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Premature demise.
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People taking themselves seriously.
They want to leave the party the same time I do.
Sunday mornings with my parents when I visited from college.
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