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

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Recorded Nicholson Baker said elsewhere, not written here
I made too much money in my 30s, and it distorted my writing and made me less hungry. Then, in my 40s, I spent all the money on daily life – and now I don’t have it.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2020 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 ↗
John Simpson English journalist
I would have behaved better to my first wife, and the girl I lived with afterwards. I was always away.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗

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