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 Rita Ora said elsewhere, not written here
That I didn’t think I knew everything.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2015 source ↗

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Bianca Jagger Nicaraguan human rights advocate
I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2020 source ↗
Jason Isaacs English actor
I wouldn’t have spent so much time trying to be a professional skateboarder or snooker player.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2020 source ↗
That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 May 2025 source ↗

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