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 Burt Reynolds said elsewhere, not written here
I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 November 2015 source ↗

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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 ↗
Mike Skinner English rapper
I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
Shaun Ryder English singer
The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗

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