My inferiority complex.
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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.
Picking my nose.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
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Fear, anxiety and panic attacks.
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No sense of humor.
Forgetting. Or, worse yet, not recognizing who my real friends are.
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Jeff Buckley's rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
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Come back to me the night before I pop my clogs.
Growing up in the 70s, in the country in England and Ireland.
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