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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.
That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗
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Their loving forbearance.
Judy Blume
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I love that my true friends don’t think of me as that Judy, but as the Judy they’ve known for years, a woman, like them. And I love their senses of humor.
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View profile →In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.
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