...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benatar or The Cure on the soundtrack.
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- I want to explain everything to him, show him that itβs really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is. β¨ Jonathan Tropper (2007). How to Talk to a Widower, p.3, Bantam
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