How do you deal with memories? Do you embrace them or turn them away?

How do you deal with memories? Do you embrace them or turn them away?
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They are part of package. And it isn’t a matter of going back. If we could go back, there would probably be plenty of places we would all go. Without memories, good or bad, you might as well be a bean plant.
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