Not being loved.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
Dying: I’m too iconic to go.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 December 2024 source ↗
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Premature demise.
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