The ghosts that exert the most power in people__ lives-at least, the people I know__end to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.
you can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do
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you can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do
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