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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’d drink less alcohol in the 90s.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗
My friend Fritha Goodey wouldn’t have committed suicide.
Nothing. Without my past I wouldn’t be who I am today.
Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.
Fewer night shifts.
I cry all the time. Films can tip me over. Especially Pixar ones. I alarmed my kids when we went to see Coco – I was a mess. I cried at the Elton John gig at Glastonbury.
The perimenopause.
Farting in front of Colin Firth.
Comparing themselves to other people.
Curious, suggestible, silly.
Bar and buffet at Top Ten Bingo in Greenford. A lot of the old people were quite bigoted.
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