When I was little, a couple of rapes took place in Glasgow. I remember my mum saying to walk in the middle of the pavement, and to this day I am very conscious of where I am.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗
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That I would lose her.
I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.
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Like a dryer going off in your stomach.
I don’t deplore anything about myself, but I am a perfectionist.
Too many times I had people try and make decisions for me. The assumption that I needed that was a big mistake!
Being at one with yourself.
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