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 Heather Graham said elsewhere, not written here
I spent too many years being hard on myself, like a drill sergeant in my head. I thought that if I was hard on myself, I’d get more results, but I now know that’s not true.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 March 2016 source ↗

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Harlan Coben American author
I’ve made a lot of mistakes, but if I could go back and fix the mistake, I wouldn’t be here.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2024 source ↗
Jodie Whittaker English actress
Getting my tongue pierced aged 15, when I had train-track braces on both my top and bottom teeth. Huge error.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗
Kevin Rowland British singer
I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗

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