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 friend Fritha Goodey wouldn’t have committed suicide.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗
It’s all a learning experience, even if it’s a shit time.
The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.
Some of those late nights.
I wouldn't have been a bully and I'd have stood up to more bullies.
Being lost and no one wanting to find me.
Our friends are sad and miss us for a bit but, hopefully, they find other people at the party.
I once walked up to Harriet Walter while she was having lunch on her own because I thought I knew her, and then when I got up to the table I realised I didn’t know her, I just recognised her because she was Harriet Walter.
To believe my eyes and not my ears.
Knowledge seeping into adventure, with a thin layer of giddiness, hysterical laughter and loss of control.
I try too hard not to get things wrong.
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