Cooking out with my closest friends and laughing until we are crying.
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Warm chocolate cake, a gorgeous fire, and Idris Elba. Also, world peace.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 October 2017 source ↗
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People who feed off of their misery. The whiners and complainers.
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