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

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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.

Recorded Reggie Yates said elsewhere, not written here
How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2017 source ↗

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Shaun Ryder English singer
The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗
Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
In particular, my decision to sell McDonald's was a very big mistake. Overall, you would have been better off last year if I had regularly snuck off to the movies during market hours.
Recorded His letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in the 1998 annual report, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., February 1999 source ↗
I would have been OK with feeling shy. In my teenage years, I thought being an actor meant that you had to be a little more performative.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 March 2024 source ↗

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