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It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough , in An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
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But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.

Betty Smith , in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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