A long, long, long, time ago--so what does that really mean? Yesterday? Another lifetime ago? A not-to-be-thought-of recent past? A decisive moment of "getting past it" whatever it was? A memory made larger by time? A lie? A fabrication? A "could have been but wasn't"?
Does it suggest to anyone else that the past is not a place to dwell, but only visit? To use but not to relive? To understand but not necessarily to repeat? The past is and can continue to be powerful in our lives -- but it can never be the present? (You cannot step into the same river twice.) The past is the story -- the present is the ending -- the future is a new story!
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