What is your idea of perfect happiness?

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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.

Recorded Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said elsewhere, not written here
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.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗

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A fall day on the beach with Elliot and my dog, Luna, and the sea, sand, and sky.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 October 2022 source ↗
Falling asleep watching a movie on a sofa because I drank too much wine at dinner, my head resting on the thigh of a loved one, who will later explain what happened.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2015 source ↗

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