Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.
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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.
Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗
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Having a stroke.
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Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
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View profile →It was such a beautiful summer’s night and I had pink hair and my band was doing really well and my mum was there, my mum was still alive. It was very magical for me and to get the honour of my city, to be blessed by their respect, it was delicious.
I don’t care if I am remembered or not.
Myself. I have never been harder on anyone else.
A ballerina. I remain rather disappointed that I became a rock star instead.
My dog’s trust in me.
Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
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