My weight, but I’m working on it. I will return!
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Indecisiveness. It can be really annoying, especially when I am out to dinner and can’t decide between the chicken or the fish.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 November 2022 source ↗
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To be taller. I’ve been looking up at certain people all my life. If I was taller, I could look down and see them a lot better.
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I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?
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When people talk over others.
When I “poll the audience” and my need to please others.
Seeing my family thrive and being underwater.
Michelle Obama.
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