Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Health, life, everything around me on a daily basis, being grateful for life—every day is a blessing.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 November 2016 source ↗
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Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
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Happiness springs from having found a form of expression that also earns recognition.
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People who do not love. If you are not loving, you are not living. Why wouldn’t you love? What’s the problem?
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