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 Joan Jett said elsewhere, not written here
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗

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Felicity Jones British actress
I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗

Paapa Essiedu British actor
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.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2023 source ↗

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