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Essays from West of 98
Have you ever had a moment in life in which you learn something that you can never unlearn? No matter how hard you try, you can never mentally return to your prior state or see the world the same way again. Depending on the particulars, this can be a bad thing or a good thing.
Toby Keith sang about the negative side in the early 1990s, in a heartbreak tale whose chorus went “wish I ...