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endnote n.178: they'll get in touch with you

quote

A more abstract but truer epigram that White Flaggers with a lot of sober time sometimes change this to goes something like: ‘Don’t worry about getting in touch with your feelings, they’ll get in touch with you.’

Context

Hanging off 092's 'Getting In Touch' cliché: the whole involuntary-memory mechanism in one senior-White-Flagger line — the direction of contact reverses; you don't retrieve the past, it comes for you. Forty words of apparatus that could caption every memory-surfacing in the Gately arc, from the lawn-mowing flashes to the hospital bed.

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