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.
Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.
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Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.
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