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Procrastination.
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Originally asked
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 interest in Los Angeles.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
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When I ruin someone else’s story because I think mine is better, so butt in before they’ve finished theirs.
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The only drink I really, really like is champagne.
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Making people smaller than they are because of something they can’t handle in themselves.
Most days, I wanted to be Albrecht in the classical ballet Giselle, dancing until I dropped dead.
Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
My first holy communion, where my trousers were too big for me and fell down, a circumstance which earned me both the instant contempt of the girls and the heightened interest of the priests. That’s just how it was in 1975.
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
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