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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
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Being able to share a confidence.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
I can be pedantic at times.
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