If you had a chance to change or "fix" one thing that happened in your life... What would it be?

If you had a chance to change or "fix" one thing that happened in your life... What would it be?
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I’d like to fix it so that my bone marrow had been a perfect match for my mother, who died of Leukaemia in 1997.
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