Losing my makeup bag.
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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.
At age 97 and counting, guess.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2012 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →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.
My belief that saying it makes it happen.
Having gone through the depression of ’29, I’d hate to see the U.S. hit bottom and not come back!
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View profile →Anywhere with her, while she lived.
Complacent stupidity.
Taking myself seriously, even in a Vanity Fair quiz.
Monogamy, with the right lady. (Sheer luck.)
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