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That I didn’t think I knew everything.
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The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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Jessica Hynes
British actress and writer
I wouldn’t have drunk alcohol.
Björn Ulvaeus
Swedish musician
My surname. You have no idea how many versions I’ve read and heard. It was especially irritating during my Abba years. You can imagine someone calling our hotel and saying: “I’d like to speak to one of the guys in Abba.” Who do you think the receptionist called, Andersson or Ulvaeus?
Tim Rice
English lyricist and author
I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.
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Frank Sinatra singing My Way.
A garden of my own.
I got dropped from two record deals when I was 14 and 17.
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