My ability to make everything about me.
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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.
Trying to do a million things at once.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗
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My trust in other people. I am rigorously honest.
I overthink everything.
My love of sugar.
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I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.
No one, I’m pretty good at saying sorry.
Kind, funny, alive.
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