Whom Do You Love? Whom Do You Love?
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“Enigma” by Henri Jules Ferdinand Bellery–Desfontaine, 1898. Photo: The MET Museum (public domain)
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Whom Do You Love?

Personality Test
Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
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Take this personality quiz to discover with whom (or what) you are enamored.

You get drafted into the army—tomorrow you are to go to the front line. How do you react?

a) You fish a uniform out of the closet and parade in front of the mirror, making menacing or solemn faces. You look great!

b)

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“Daddy, why didn’t you tell me you’re Walt Disney?” asked six-year-old Diane with dismay. She found out at school, when a friend told her that it was her dad who created Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, the characters loved by all the kids across the nation. Diane and her younger sister Sharon lived a sheltered and very private life. Despite spending their afternoons playing in large studio warehouses, the girls treated them like a regular playground. They had no nannies and were not sent off to boarding schools or private governesses, like many other children in Hollywood. Their dad drove them to school. Walt was caring and eager to play with them, although he sometimes lost his temper and gave them a spanking. He protected the girls from the public eye; never took them to movie premieres, amusement park openings, or any other celebrations related to his growing empire of fantasy. What a paradox: the very man who spread childlike wonder across the world and helped to turn the relationships between grown and little people upside down, maintained imperturbable hierarchy in his own life.

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