The ability to be themselves rather than hiding behind a mask.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Knowing they are there for you.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 November 2019 source ↗
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It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
They want nothing but friendship.
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Devouring an egg salad sandwich with the salt, pepper, and mayo in exactly the right proportion.
In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
Deborah Divine.
Being on a Broadway stage and forgetting what the play is.
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