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

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Alan Dale said elsewhere, not written here
I would not get married until I was in my 30s.

Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗

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As I look back on those days, it’s just like a dream. The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest and to let it be known wherever we go that all of us should be free and equal and have all opportunities that others should have.
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