Being at home, watching a good movie with my husband. Dining out with good friends.
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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 our beach house with my family in the Bahamas.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2024 source ↗
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Being at home with Brian and the dogs.
Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
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