Always trying to turn things into a joke.
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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.
Trying to do a million things at once.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗
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Self-absorption.
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The inability to laugh before 11 a.m.
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Kind, funny, alive.
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