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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.
A sudden summer breeze on a hot afternoon.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2020 source ↗
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Being grateful for what you have.
A peaceful, joyous time in the world…or in my head.
A calm and peaceful mind, landing a joke, being the name right after “And the winner is…”
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