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 Alison Steadman said elsewhere, not written here
I would never have smoked - I gave up years ago.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗

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Suzanne Vega American singer-songwriter
I would have tried to meet Lou Reed backstage. I went to see him for years, and never tried to meet him. Eventually we met at award shows and did become friends.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2017 source ↗
Simone Biles United States artistic gymnast
Nothing. Everything has led me to who and where I am now.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2017 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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