If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

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I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

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Björn Ulvaeus Swedish musician
My surname. You have no idea how many versions I’ve read and heard. It was especially irritating during my Abba years. You can imagine someone calling our hotel and saying: “I’d like to speak to one of the guys in Abba.” Who do you think the receptionist called, Andersson or Ulvaeus?
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2020 source ↗
There was a very large part of my 20s where I was an alcoholic, and an addict. When I lost my dad to cirrhosis, I knew that the only difference between us was that, tragically, he couldn’t stop whereas I could.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 June 2026 source ↗

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