In physics they taught us mass/energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another. Much later, today I understand same is truer for memories. You think you have dealt with them, banished them to oblivion but that’s not true. Grief and loss have a propensity of cropping out of nowhere reminding you with silent insistence of what you thought had been forgotten or resolved. Memories stay with us no matter how much time has passed as does loss….