My closest friends have always been my clients and coworkers, their love and loyalty, not to mention their amazing talents!
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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.
They take my calls.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
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Judy Blume
Novelist
I love that my true friends don’t think of me as that Judy, but as the Judy they’ve known for years, a woman, like them. And I love their senses of humor.
They want to leave the party the same time I do.
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View profile →St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
That I’ll die worrying.
Standing up while eating.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
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