I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been.. It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible. Dorothy Allison
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A person will always be who they used to be. Nothing can change that. A person can’t just simply disappear and start over again. That would be impossible because you are who you are at this moment.

There's no way to change it. But, by running away you are fulfilling the desire of wanting to run away from who you were at the present moment, but by doing so you are simply focusing on the past instead of moving forward.

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

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