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On Tue, 15 Mar 16 19:54:33 UTC Elizabeth Diane Shaffer (0) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To be separated from my parents and brothers
- Where would you like to live?
- On a farm like the one I would have grown up on
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To live, to breathe, to dream, to be healthy and whole
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- I feel insecure about my physical handicaps
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- I never had the chance to indulge in fiction.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Einstein who did not read until age 3, Franklin Roosevelt who suffered from polio, & Helen Keller who was deaf, blind, and mute
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Any female who beats the odds and surmounts any physical/mental handicap
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- I never had the chance to indulge in fiction, but if I had, any heroine who clears obstacles and overcomes.
- Your favorite painter?
- Monet's paintings are quite soothing if I had viewed his paintings, but Picasso saw people in a way others did not.
- Your favorite musician?
- My mother singing me to sleep.
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Quiet strength like my father possesses.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Gentleness and one who wears her heart for the world to see like my mother does.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Humility and the ability to live and appreciate the present moment.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Readers, dreamers, and writers
- Who would you have liked to be?
- I would have liked to have been healthy and whole and lived a long life.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- I possessed an open spinal canal which created a hole on my back and sac of fluid which covered this hole, by legs were paralyzed, my hips were broken, and fluid collected in my head.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Their sweet remembrances and love for me even though I am no longer alive.
- What is your principle defect?
- The bones of my spine did not form around my spinal chord, fluid leaked out a hole in my back, I was paralyzed, and hydrocephalus occurred.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Never to have lived a productive life nor to have grown up with my brothers.
- What would you like to be?
- a whole, healthy, and vibrant woman
- What is your favorite color?
- Garnet...my birthstone.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Carnation--my birth flower, which is for remembrance, but also Snowdrops because they symbolize the hope of a new life.
- What is your favorite bird?
- The blue bird symbolizes happiness.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- I could only enjoy children's books; so, any children's author.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Any children's poet--probably Shel Silverstein would be my favorite.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Doctors and researchers who have found ways to treat newborns with Spina Bifida--as well as physical therapists and occupational therapists who work with handicapped children.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Any female who beats the odds and surmounts any physical/mental handicap
- What are your favorite names?
- The names of my brothers.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Disease and doctors who won't treat sick patients.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Those world leaders who despised and exterminate handicapped individuals.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- The ability to walk and talk.
- How would you like to die?
- I died suffering... I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
- What is your present state of mind?
- I am free from all pain and paralysis.
- What is your motto?
- “I look out onto this world I'm in and hope that one day all people will be accepted and valued as they are.” ― TinaJ. Richardson
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