That they don’t die on me.
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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.
Being able to share a confidence.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗
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The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
They take my calls.
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My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
The inability to listen.
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