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

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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.

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Recorded Jodie Whittaker said elsewhere, not written here
Getting my tongue pierced aged 15, when I had train-track braces on both my top and bottom teeth. Huge error.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

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Philip Gould Political strategist and pollster; architect of New Labour
When I thought maybe I've just got a few weeks, I thought God this is what they mean by the reckoning. I've got to sort all this stuff out in days. Is it possible to sort out all those things in your past that you'd prefer not to have done? ... But actually by going through the process we've gone through, I think we have. And it's a real blessing to have this time do that.
Recorded Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian, interview at Gould's home in London, 20 September 2011 source ↗
Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist
My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗

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