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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.
COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2020 source ↗
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Safety of loved ones.
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Being too open and generous to those who don’t deserve it.
Having fun with my sisters back in the day. I miss playing cards and fighting over crabs with them every weekend.
Being healthy. Sometimes we don’t know that we’re not healthy because we’re not going to the doctor—like me, when I first discovered I had diabetes years ago.
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