This is a personal favorite among the 2nd canned questions. It is the indirect way of asking “What are you looking for in a relationship partner?”, which is a repeat of the About Me question “What is the most important quality that you are looking for in another person?”.
Make sure your answer to this question jives with your answer to “most important quality you are looking for” in your About Me. If you want and it doesn’t hurt, just restate your “most important quality” answer, epitomized in your closest friend.
Meanwhile, I heard dating advice against citing a member of the opposite sex as your “closest friend”. What do you think of this? Can a woman find a date while having a very close male friend?
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