There is an old saying in the field of psychology that “memory changes the more you use it”.
In other words, though we may feel as if our feelings towards the past are forever fixed; in fact, the more we reminisce on certain situations (for good or for bad) the more our memory - or at least, our emotional attachment to the memory - seems to change.
And …
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