But to find a lingering unread missive from someone no longer living, and someone whose life had been so deeply entwined with ones own, raised the possibility that the past could never be a fully settled matter. It meant that your own past could be altered without your action or consent, that the story of your self that you continually told back to yourself could be revised by force, making you into another person who you would, perhaps, prefer not to become.

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  • Change — Embracing transformation, growth, and new beginnings
  • Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave

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