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On Sun, 01 Apr 12 03:42:13 UTC GenXer2012 (39) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Gen X is haunted by an existential restlessness that can never be satisfied because the opportunities are thinner, the past looks fake, tired, and just plain wrong.; unemployed and living with parents.-Forbes.com
Where would you like to live?
In beauty, freedom and abundance.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To have what I want when I want it with a sense of spirituality, virtuosity and freedom.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Stoving off my own brilliance.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Harry Potter, ET, Gollum, Stephen King: those that export me to fantastical, thrilling places.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Princess Diana, Michael Moore, Shel Silverstein, Joan of Arc, Anne Boleyn, Jesus Christ, MLK
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Women who withstand the lash of contention and contribute anyway.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Thelma & Louise
Your favorite painter?
Picasso - but this is not my favorite art medium; sound is: music.
Your favorite musician?
I have an appreciation of most all music. There is an abundance of richness in all genres.
The quality you most admire in a man?
Consideration, respect.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Strength, compassion.
Your favorite virtue?
I am living in a generation of Consciousness where virtues are being reconsidered and renegotiated for the highest and best good of all beings.
Your favorite occupation?
Getting paid to do what I love.
Who would you have liked to be?
I like how I turned out.
Your most marked characteristic?
Being natural and organic; authentic.
What do you most value in your friends?
Love and acute sincerity.
What is your principle defect?
Tendancy towards self-forgetting.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To be anyone other than me.
What would you like to be?
Me, a lifelong learning me.
What is your favorite color?
I love color but I have a habit of wearing earth tones.
What is your favorite flower?
Lily-those with the richest, sweetest scents (ugly or not).
What is your favorite bird?
Owls and Hawks - birds of prey; omnious and beautiful.
Who are your favorite prose writers?
The purple prose writers. Bring on the dense metaphors that sting my brain. Love it!
Who are your favorite poets?
Shel Silverstein, Jewel Mathieson

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