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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

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It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

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Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...