Harley KingMemory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
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Memory is a sly devil. It makes us believe that we’ve forgotten something when in reality, we’ve never lost it in the first place. Even so, the memory of our youth is not to be trusted. Instead, we should remember the things we did with our friends and family when we were young and then let that memory fade into the background and the new memories that we create later in life take precedence.
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