When the coffee kicks in early in the morning and I’m on the couch with my dogs, reading the paper.
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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 with my best friend, who’s a girl.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2012 source ↗
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Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
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