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 Cerys Matthews said elsewhere, not written here
I’d be born a man and have a wife to run the house.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2016 source ↗

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My all-girls’ high school. I hated it. Large groups of teenage girls aren’t known for their empathy and kindness. It was a shock to realise that people viewed me as uncool because of the way my body worked.
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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.
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I would really love to know my parents as an adult. I lost my dad when I was 14 and my mum when I was 20.
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