Gayle King
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I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
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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.
Losing my mind.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗
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Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
Turning into my father.
Rita Wilson
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Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
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