My competitive side, the one that keeps score.
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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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.
My love of sugar.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2016 source ↗
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Any day spent laughing with friends or family.
If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to change the idea that I should change something about myself.
Living a life of regret because of fear.
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