It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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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.
That it all goes away and never comes back.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2015 source ↗
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Patrick Stewart
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That I would lose her.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
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View profile →Probably being granted all-access to a Disney theme park with my husband, David, and a group of close friends—and just us—while we wandered and drank tropical tiki drinks. No judgment, no lines, no bad weather, and no hangovers. Oh, and our twins would be there too, but only when they’re happy and meltdown-free. I guess the same would go for David.
Quickly and by surprise. I don’t want the specter of death to linger.
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