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You haven't used colors in fourteen years, either.
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What I'm trying to say is that maybe you're back because of nostalgia\index{Nostalgia}. *Restless Town* was done and couldn't be published yet, and a prideful part of me didn't want it to be my first book, so I pulled \emph{Rum and Coke} into shape.
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What I'm trying to say is that maybe you're back because of nostalgia\index{Nostalgia}. \emph{Restless Town} was done and couldn't be published yet, and a prideful part of me didn't want it to be my first book, so I pulled \emph{Rum and Coke} into shape.
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It rubbed my nose in the past. I published it a few weeks ago, and I wasn't done with the past, so I started archiving more data. I dug up my old hard drives. I grabbed stuff from Dreamhost, both files and database backups. I finally unlocked my LJ account and archived that.
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It's okay to not let go of some things.
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How? How so? How could that possibly be true? How could one possible grow as a person with not letting go of something?
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How? How so? How could that possibly be true? How could one possibly grow as a person with not letting go of something?
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It's okay to not let go of some things, and to use them to inform your growth in the future. It's okay to use grief to become a better person.
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\noindent Cathleen Schine writes in \emph{The Evolution of Jane}:
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\noindent I resented the state of childhood wonder. It was insatiable, yet it seemed to me to be no more than a puerile affliction, like baby teeth. My ignorance struck me as a bizarre anomaly, for I felt, with utter certainty, that I was --- how can I say this? --- that I was *sufficient*. Evidence to the contrary forced itself on me every hour of every day, but that seemed to me some preposterous misunderstanding.
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\noindent I resented the state of childhood wonder. It was insatiable, yet it seemed to me to be no more than a puerile affliction, like baby teeth. My ignorance struck me as a bizarre anomaly, for I felt, with utter certainty, that I was --- how can I say this? --- that I was \emph{sufficient}. Evidence to the contrary forced itself on me every hour of every day, but that seemed to me some preposterous misunderstanding.
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And while I don't necessarily have fond memories of childhood--
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