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The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.
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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.
Living a life of regret because of fear.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2016 source ↗
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Rafael Nadal
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I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
Still nuclear annihilation.
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