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 Joseph Fiennes said elsewhere, not written here
Doc Brown proved that editing the past is disastrous.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

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I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.
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On BBC Breakfast, I accidentally said “fuck” on air. My microphone had been turned on when I wasn’t in the room. It went out across the telly and they had to apologise.
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When I was working hard, I was going so fast that I didn’t absorb a lot.
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