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I wouldn’t have spent so much time trying to be a professional skateboarder or snooker player.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Doc Brown proved that editing the past is disastrous.
I’d be happier being myself younger.
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That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
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