Insecurity around money. I have this profound insecurity about not having enough to provide for my family.
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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.
When I “poll the audience” and my need to please others.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2022 source ↗
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