... people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you <em>wish</em> them to be, and as you <… - Agatha Christie

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... people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.