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I had my heart broken a lot in my teens, but I'm not sure I'd change it.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Boarding school. It was horrible.
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I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.
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I read too much science fiction to mess with anything. I’d be terrified that, by changing something, my kids wouldn’t be mine.
I would have partied a little bit harder in my 20s.
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