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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 don’t give myself that much thought.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2024 source ↗
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View all 243 →Procrastination.
Absentmindedness.
My health anxiety. I am a bit of a hypochondriac. I hate that about myself and I’ve worked extensively in therapy on changing it.
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View profile →On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
You’re going to come up against brick walls in life. You’ve got to go over them, under them, around them, or crash through them, but somehow or other you’ve got to get to the other side.
The day my son was born.
I always try to see the good. I never look for the bad.
My recent battle with cancer.
Rhythm patterns from my dance shows.
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