Indecisiveness. It can be really annoying, especially when I am out to dinner and can’t decide between the chicken or the fish.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That I would have focused more on languages.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2019 source ↗
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Bonnie Raitt
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Balancing my inner and outer life.
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My inability to keep track of personal possessions.
I’m not going to change anything about myself. I am happy and blessed with what God gave me, and I really have nothing to complain about.
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Discrimination, for any reason.
No contest: seeing my grandchildren enjoying each other.
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