To be completely alone.
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Originally asked
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.
Something happening to one of my children.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2010 source ↗
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Endless vomiting. That comes from my emetophobia, which is a huge part of my OCD.
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Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
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Passive aggression.
A perfect flight to a perfect landing … with witnesses.
Procrastination.
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