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Immersed in a bowl of noodles, sat around my parents' dining room table with all my family. Bliss!
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The birth of my children.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2022 source ↗
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