The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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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I would have spent every single day with my sister before she left to live in New Zealand. At my wedding, it was the first time I had seen her in two and a half years.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
I’d have told a racist cabbie to go fuck himself, but I was scared about being chucked out on the street at 2am.
I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.
I wouldn’t live so long in France. After eight years, I came back to London.
A Rolex, after London 2012.
I’m proud of my achievements at the Olympics. But I prepare in exactly the same way for every race.
Stephen Hawking: what he does is incredible. My nan died of motor neurone disease, which he has.
On my wedding day.
I’ve never had a job.
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