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She gently held her head, as if to protect it from the memories that were now flooding in. Trying to block out the past and look towards the future had never been her strength. In fact, one could say that it was the exact opposite. Everything was different now in her life and she was very glad of that, but the sting would still sometimes attack her heart. A sudden presence of something familiar would shove her brain back to those days, to those times of worry and sorrow. It would engulf her, and for a little while she would be in its despair once again.