Being in love while organizing my closet.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Originally asked
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.
My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 January 2024 source ↗
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John Mellencamp
Singer and songwriter
It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness.
Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
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When our family was complete.
Sharks. The ones in the ocean.
The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”
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