I don’t know about perfect, but a creamy scoop of green-tea ice cream comes fairly close.
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Originally asked
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.
To survive from an impossible condition.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 April 2018 source ↗
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