Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
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