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There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

— Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin (2009)

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People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

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Yet nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

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