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| f6e6a18 | My younger self had come back to shock my older self with what that self had been, or was, or was sometimes capable of being. And only recently I'd been going on about how the witnesses to our lives decrease, and with them our essential corroboration. Now I had some all too unwelcome corroboration of what I was, or had been. | identity former-self the-sense-of-an-ending julian-barnes the-past self | Julian Barnes |