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 Andy Roddick said elsewhere, not written here
I’d love to have won Wimbledon.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2015 source ↗

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Some of the neuroses of my 20s. I knew I had a great talent, but I thought it was unmarketable because I felt ugly.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 July 2022 source ↗

I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗

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