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.

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Recorded Ciarán Hinds said elsewhere, not written here
My penchant for having just one too many.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗

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Emma Barnett British broadcaster and journalist
Not being able to have a baby for two and a half years. Lots of people say it made me a better person; I think it made me worse. You go to a very dark place with your friends because they are having kids, and you want to be happy for them but you’re not.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2021 source ↗
Adwoa Aboah British fashion model
Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2019 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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