Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!
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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.
To sit by a clear river on a warm day in early July with the smell of cut grass in the air.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2010 source ↗
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John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
When I was growing up on a farm in rural Alabama, I fell in love with raising chickens. They seem truly innocent. Whenever I'm around chickens, I feel happy.
Just a lazy day roaming New York with my daughters—La Esquina for lunch and Mister Softee for dessert.
Floating on my back in the ocean.
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Their ability to open a bottle of wine.
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time. But I think I am pretty happy now.
Serially telling endless boring jokes and sexism and racism and homophobia (they often go together).
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