Their ability to open a bottle of wine.
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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.
Being there through thin and thin. That’s friendship treasured.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2013 source ↗
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At the altar all seven times.
False humility.
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