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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.
Party, good friends, lots of dancing.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 16 March 2017 source ↗
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Being surrounded by my friends and family. Just listening to them interacting, laughing, sharing. It is the culmination of everything I could have hoped for.
Being with my family and kids, on an island, eating and drinking.
Watching my wife and children eat.
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