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If you could revise one chapter of 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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Ronald Harwood South African playwright and novelist
The death of my wife: I’d happily have gone first.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 November 2016 source ↗
Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist
My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗
Harlan Coben American author
I’ve made a lot of mistakes, but if I could go back and fix the mistake, I wouldn’t be here.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2024 source ↗
Jeremy Vine English presenter and journalist
I’d stop my teenage self worrying about how my life was going to pan out.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2019 source ↗

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