What is your greatest fear?

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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.

Recorded Ed Koch said elsewhere, not written here
Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2013 source ↗

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Rita Wilson American actress, singer, and producer
Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗

Harlan Coben American author
I don’t even voice them. Perhaps the books are my outlet here.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2024 source ↗

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