What would you do if you were an 8 year old again, with your current mind (including memories and skills)? (sh.itjust.works)

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Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?

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[-] Buffalobuffalo@reddthat.com 1 points 4 hours ago

If we assume I become my 8 year old self and live my life over, this becomes a problem. I love my wife and would not want to risk changing anything so that I meet her. Yet we at and dated at 16… this would be problematic as I would be a 45 year old man in the body of a 16 year old. Creepy factors aside, could I pretend to be what I think 16 year old me was like? And if I did would the relationship not be based on a lie?

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