Being there for each other during good times and bad.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Discretion and good cheer.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗
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Smarts, kindness, decency, honesty, integrity, humor. Really do love a good cook! Our group of friends has been friends for a long time.
Their humor and that they are smarter than I, but not by too much.
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Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
Becoming dickish.
Now. My life is better with every year of living it.
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