Food in a sink drain.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Originally asked
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.
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2019 source ↗
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