Trying to exercise authority over one.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Selfishness—people who don’t care about others or their feelings and will do or say anything as long as they get what they want.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2001 source ↗
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Complacent stupidity.
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View profile →To be taller. I’ve been looking up at certain people all my life. If I was taller, I could look down and see them a lot better.
In Macon, Georgia, during my childhood. I knew everybody there—it was like the whole town was your family. I felt complete there.
Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
Being at peace with God.
I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.
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