The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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.
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 June 2018 source ↗
I would never have smoked - I gave up years ago.
I wish I hadn’t been a heavy smoker for so many years.
The peace of the Sabbath, of a stopped world, a time outside time, was palpable, infused everything, and I found myself drenched with a wistfulness, something akin to nostalgia, wondering what if: What if A and B and C had been different? What sort of person might I have been? What sort of a life might I have lived?
I would have had more time with my dad before he passed away.
Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
Getting the job on Strictly at the age of 56.
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
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