"He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings."

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So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

— Sue Grafton