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The reunion, she decided, was an unnecessary and stressful complication to life. We did not need to reheat cold dishes from the past.
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letting-to
the-past
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...reunions, she felt, were not much more than a scratching at the vague itch of memory. And like scratching, they rarely helped--indeed, scratching often made matters worse, as any dermatologist would tell you.
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scratching
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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Class reunions were about curiosity; about satisfaction at the avoidance of the mistakes of one's contemporaries, now revealed in their emerging life histories; about reflecting on the ravages--and injustices--of time; and of realizing, perhaps, how strange and random are the twists and turns of fate.
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reflection-on-life
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Alexander McCall Smith |