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 Eddie Marsan said elsewhere, not written here
I wouldn't have been a bully and I'd have stood up to more bullies.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2014 source ↗

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I would have tried to meet Lou Reed backstage. I went to see him for years, and never tried to meet him. Eventually we met at award shows and did become friends.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2017 source ↗
Mary McCartney English photographer and cookbook author
Through food, I’ve become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity. I’d have become a quantum physicist!
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 February 2022 source ↗
Siri Hustvedt American novelist, essayist, poet
I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2017 source ↗

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