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Chapter 12: Wonderings, Regrets & Hindsight is 2016

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"Because I always wonder what would have happened if things had played out differently. But to name my past decisions 'mistakes' or 'regrets' is foolish. If I chose something, it was the right choice at the time. We never purposefully make mistakes, we only call them that in hindsight" - Amanda Torroni If you've ever played Conversation Question Card Games at social gatherings, you may have encountered some version of the question "if you could go back in time and change [or relive, redo, etc] something, what would it be?". Based on how you define the question, there are so many ways you can go with this. Do you take the prompt on a macro level, like change the outcome of the 2016 Election? That way we would not be stuck with 3 Supreme Court justices who all lied under oath and have effectively turned America into The Handmaid's Tale (I actually haven't seen the show yet; too triggering). As a nation we would have had a more pro-science...