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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My daughter talking to her friends even though I thought I’d disabled her devices.
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