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MEMBER BLOG TAG: detour

Sunday, April 20, 2008 4:02PM
 
a time for departure
Tags: detour, departure, editorial, sadi ranson, pen,
 
Tennessee Williams said, “There is a time in life for departure even when there is no place to go.”

It’s a slippery statement but at this juncture, I can relate in that I feel a need for departure – be it from a relationship or place – it is a departure all the same. The scary thing about departure is that you don’t know where it leads, as Williams says. You know where you were, or you think you know here you were or perhaps you did and now it has been changed, dare I say edited, revised, history rewritten? This happens: people can be conveniently revisionist when it suits, and this hurts. They will take years of a shared history and with one mark of...

 
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