I am petrified of bikini waxing. I had a very bad experience in 1978.
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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.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2019 source ↗
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Sharks. The ones in the ocean.
I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.
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Cooking out with my closest friends and laughing until we are crying.
Oh, I have a long list. You should ask me what I like about myself—that list is much shorter.
Those who are both loyal and can cook.
I wish I always had the right word in the right moment at the right time and not two hours later in my car going home.
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