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    • What is your mother’s maiden name?
    • What is your older sister’s favorite Monopoly game piece?
    • Who did your paternal grandfather vote for in the 1956 presidential election?
    • Why did you choose a liberal-arts degree when your entire family urged you to go into finance?
    • In what year did you begin working on your novel?
    • How many weeks away was graduation when you dropped out of college?
    • What was your score on the civil-service employment exam?
    • Where were you sitting when your girlfriend told you she was pregnant?
    • Where did you never end up going for your honeymoon?
    • In what year did you begin working for the post office?
    • What is the name of the hedge-fund manager your ex-wife married?
    • How many hours did it take you to drink that bottle of Jack Daniel’s yesterday?
    • What time was it when, in a drunken rage, you threw your novel into the fire?
    • If you could do it all over again, what would you do differently?

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