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Procrastination.
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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.
Not always standing up for myself enough.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2012 source ↗
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I’m monstrously judgmental. It’s like talking to the pope.
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I am not studious enough. I get easily distracted.
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Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
Peacefully, in good physical health, sound of mind, still active, at a great age, with my children around me.
The first 10 years of my marriage, when my children were small.
Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.
I wish I were braver, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough “fun.”
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