Our common experience in fact is the opposite — that the past, far from disappearing or lying down and being quiet, has an embarrassing and persisten… - Desmond Tutu

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Our common experience in fact is the opposite — that the past, far from disappearing or lying down and being quiet, has an embarrassing and persistent way of returning and haunting us unless it has in fact been dealt with adequately. Unless we look the beast in the eye we find it has an uncanny habit of returning to hold us hostage.