One thing you would do differently

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I should have gone up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1987 with the Cambridge Footlights, but ~ alas ~ I did not.

@fmf said
Just not Brazil.

Or Ecuador.

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You waited a month to ask?

Obsessed much?

@a-unique-nickname said
You waited a month to ask?

Obsessed much?

I think it's more a case of boredom with some of the more current threads. If it were a case of being obsessed, as you suggest, I don't suppose he would have waited a month.

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I would not stay as long as I did in Japan if I had a do over. That was definitely a case of inertia.

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I was 16. I was young and naive. I was sheltered at home and treated like a princess as I was an only child.

I'm not a horrible judge of character, but he was different then. Kind. Not bossy, never lost his temper. Then things changed overnight.

Nevertheless, it was a string of circumstances started by my running off with him. It was a bad idea all the way around, but as I said, I was young and naive.

I would be a different person today had those two years never happened. But would that person be a better person? I don't know. Maybe. But I honestly don't think so. And hindsight is always 20/20.

@suzianne said
I would be a different person today had those two years never happened. But would that person be a better person? I don't know. Maybe. But I honestly don't think so.

Ah, and there's the rub of it. This is what Torunn was getting at on page 1.

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Indeed sir, that was a strange thing to do on a 28 bus to Bradford.

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Take more risks.

@rajk999 said
Buy tech stock back in the 80s.

Amen to that. A couple of Apple stocks would have made you a rich man, years later. They split many times, so you'd have hundreds by now.