Heights. I love being high, but I don’t like being up high.
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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.
Losing my family.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2024 source ↗
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Not enough food in the fridge.
I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.
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To my daughters and my partner, Tracey, for what I put them through with my transition.
The pope. I was brought up in the Catholic religion, and I think he is trying to make the church more accepting of all. He’s got a very hard job because the church is very stuck in its rightwing conservative ways.
A black Russian terrier – I paid almost £4,000 for him.
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Not being truthful to everyone from an earlier age.
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