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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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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 ↗
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 ↗
Shaun Ryder English singer
The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗

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