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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2025 source ↗
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Narcissism, solipsism.
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The Mona Lisa – I preferred the frame.
I’ve pooed myself a couple of times.
Manipulative greed and hate.
Big dick energy.
Dying when my children are still young. I know how much it hurt me. I was 30 when my mum died and 39 when my dad died, and even then, that was too young.
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