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On Fri, 11 Nov 16 04:53:48 UTC Marraine (40) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
to be controlled
Where would you like to live?
In the home I built with my own hands, on the batture
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Freedom and perhaps to shine a little light that shows others the way
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
excess
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
anyone who found their voice or their way
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Amelia Mary Earhart, Henriette DeLille
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Ameline, Maman, Elodie, my sister, my mother and hers
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Zora Neale Hurston's Janie Starks
Your favorite painter?
God and then maybe Frida Kahlo
Your favorite musician?
the wind blowing through leaves on broken branches
The quality you most admire in a man?
rough hands, a sound mind, and a soft heart
The quality you most admire in a woman?
audacity, intelligence, and when reason permits- elan
Your favorite virtue?
love, grace
Your favorite occupation?
gardening, conjuring, dreaming
Who would you have liked to be?
Nothing other than what I have fought to become
Your most marked characteristic?
Courage and perhaps, being strong-willed
What do you most value in your friends?
honesty, kindness,
What is your principle defect?
stubbornness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
to have given fear or shame a foothold
What would you like to be?
myself, authentically
What is your favorite color?
blue
What is your favorite flower?
hibiscus
What is your favorite bird?
hummingbird, ruby-throated in particular
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Simone de Beauvoir, Alexandre Dumas
Who are your favorite poets?
the poet and king David
Who are your heroes in real life?
I am my own hero
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Hadassah, Ruth, survivors who chose love
What are your favorite names?
I haven't known a name sweeter than Maman
What is it you most dislike?
rigidity, cowardice masquerading as grace
What historical figures do you most despise?
I don't spend my sacred energy that way
What event in military history do you most admire?
not even one
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
The ones I was given serve me just fine
How would you like to die?
fulfilled and empty, having fully exhausted everything God gave me
What is your present state of mind?
pleased to have completed this questionaire
What is your motto?
Laissez les bons temps rouler (let the good times roll)

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