Craig Charles
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Losing my marbles.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
Child, loss or damage thereof.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2011 source ↗
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The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
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Procrastination.
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Anywhere, during the 2 to 24 hours after a successful joke.
A glass of wine at sunset on Fire Island. / No homework.
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