Cooking out with my closest friends and laughing until we are crying.
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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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.
Being at home with Brian and the dogs.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2017 source ↗
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U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
When I was growing up on a farm in rural Alabama, I fell in love with raising chickens. They seem truly innocent. Whenever I'm around chickens, I feel happy.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
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I would be a better, faster, and more faithful writer of letters and e-mails, and returner of phone calls.
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