What motivates you, then? Please don’t tell me altruism. I am not quite so gullible as that. - Michael Bishop

Magistrate, a problem doesn't cease to exist simply because you cease to consider it a problem.
"Very often, Deputy Foutlif, it does.

You can’t go home again, particularly if you never had one.

They had both changed in eight years, eroded or subtly augmented by the sweep of time’s river.