I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.
She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory__orever there to complicate the present, forever there to remind us that it will always be a piece of us. I never had a clue as to what she meant, until now.
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She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory__orever there to complicate the present, forever there to remind us that it will always be a piece of us. I never had a clue as to what she meant, until now.
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