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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

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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.

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Noah Harari Israeli historian and philosopher
I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗
Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor
I'd edit out all the wrong people I surrounded myself with socially and professionally whom I thought I had to tolerate.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
kd lang Canadian musician
When I was working hard, I was going so fast that I didn’t absorb a lot.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 May 2021 source ↗

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