Losing my husband. We are properly codependent.
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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.
Not fulfilling my potential.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2023 source ↗
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Tom Lubbock
Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
Bruce Dickinson
English heavy metal singer
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
My children dying before me.
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View profile →A warm sunny day. You get this bubble around you and, all of a sudden, problems are halved.
I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.
When I initially made money with the Corrs, I bought a Jaguar XK8.
I can’t disclose that because it’s not suitable for public airing, but it was truly awful; they’ve since said worse.
Procrastination.
I don’t have a sorry.
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