A willingness to come uptown.
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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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.
That they get it.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2012 source ↗
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That they want to be with me.
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Convince myself that walking two miles a day isn’t boring.
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