If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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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.

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Recorded James Bay said elsewhere, not written here
I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 January 2016 source ↗

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Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser
Since hostile people still call me a former Playboy Bunny, even at 82, I probably shouldn’t have done that in my youth, even to write an exposé. And since a couple of times they’ve also referred to me as a former CIA agent, because I went to two Soviet-era communist youth festivals, I probably shouldn’t have done that, either. Yet if I hadn’t done both, I might have judged other people by such empty symbols, too.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗
Patrisse Khan-Cullors American artist and activist
My mentally ill brother going to juvenile hall when he was 14. It led to his incarceration from 14 to almost 40.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 March 2018 source ↗
Lauren Laverne English radio DJ, and television presenter
It would have been lovely to have grown up in private like a lot of my friends.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 February 2022 source ↗
Paapa Essiedu British actor
I would really love to know my parents as an adult. I lost my dad when I was 14 and my mum when I was 20.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2023 source ↗

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