It’s only natural when the New Year comes to start to think of all things new and yet to come.
Instead I think, “Gosh, 1999 was 10 years ago, wasn’t it?”
The thought just won’t fit inside my head. Somehow the year 2000 still seems somewhere up ahead. Sometimes I worry I’ll be spending the rest of my life trying to get back to a place behind me, behind us, forever gone.
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