"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories—a room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our hearts, we have to keep making new reference cards…
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