If you want to identify me,
ask me
not where I live,
or what I like to eat,
or how I comb my hair,
but ask me what I think I am living for, in detail,
and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.
Between these two answers you can determine the identity of any person.
How would you answer these two questions?
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