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Things I would do if time travel were possible...

  1. Go back to pre-school and really appreciate afternoon nap time;
  2. Take a ride on the Orient Express back when women wore white gloves and men carried pocket handkerchiefs;
  3. Go back to 12 December 1984 and see what life was like for me as an only child before my sister arrived the following day. As I can't imagine life without her... I'm sure I was very lonely before she made her grand entrance into the world;
  4. Spend a little longer on the phone to Grandpa Ray the last time we spoke;
  5. Take a walk through Carnaby street back when flower power was all the rage and a VW beetle was the must have mode of transportation;
  6. Have breakfast at Tiffany's with Audrey Hepburn;
  7. Never have started smoking in the first place a.k.a should have listened to my mother;
  8. Would have bought 'Starry starry night' from Vincent Van Gogh' a minute after he finished painting it;
  9. Be old enough to vote in 1994 – when first democratic elections were held in South Africa;
  10. Go back to the moment I said 'I do' and press 'pause' just so that I could savour that moment for as long as I wanted to, then press 'fast forward' to the present and give him a great big 'I love you even more than the day I married you' kiss!

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Smart CoOKie said…
That's nice.

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