The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My all-girls’ high school. I hated it. Large groups of teenage girls aren’t known for their empathy and kindness. It was a shock to realise that people viewed me as uncool because of the way my body worked.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2020 source ↗
I would go back to when I was 14 and keep to my own style of playing snooker. I was perfect, but I didn’t think I was, so I started playing like everybody else and created bad habits. With a little more time, I could have been the ultimate player. I look at my career and I probably got 75% out of it instead of 100%.
I would have had more time with my dad before he passed away.
A bilious green suit springs to mind.
I’d have been less precocious as a child (you grow up fast in New York). I’d have prolonged the naivety.
I don’t own a property. The carpet in our flat; it’s not fancy or anything.
I’ve liked all my jobs, amazingly.
A never-ending hug.
As the woman who never died.
The 2019 general election.
My relationship.
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