That I’ll die worrying.
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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.
Endless vomiting. That comes from my emetophobia, which is a huge part of my OCD.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗
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Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Violent death. Death generally.
Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
Shakin' Stevens
Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter
A world without music.
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