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\nn.<\/i> the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it\u2014whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness\u2014which allows it to drift away from the rest of your life story, until the memory itself feels out of place, almost mythical, wandering restlessly in the fog, no longer even looking for a place to land.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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