Well, I’m always right.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Asking my wife questions that don't need to be asked.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗
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