If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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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.

Recorded Bear Grylls said elsewhere, not written here
My failures have taught me more than the successes, so not much.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 October 2015 source ↗

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Steph McGovern Broadcaster
On BBC Breakfast, I accidentally said “fuck” on air. My microphone had been turned on when I wasn’t in the room. It went out across the telly and they had to apologise.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 November 2020 source ↗
Burt Reynolds American actor
I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 November 2015 source ↗

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