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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.
Discretion and love of New Orleans—my favorite city. These two go hand in hand.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 29 March 2018 source ↗
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