I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I bore myself constantly.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2022 source ↗
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Getting thrown down a well.
Whenever it was, it’s likely I was actually miserable, destitute and alone.
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