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Over the next few months, I evaluated four other clients with a very similar picture: young queer adults torturing themselves with obsessional thinking about a sexuality-related misdeed from their remote past.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2022

“We need not freeze remote past values in public spaces when they are clearly archaic and profoundly offensive,” he wrote in an email.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2020

Researchers have already found important clues to the Red Planet’s remote past within a small number of meteorites chipped off of Mars and hurled to Earth by ancient giant impacts.

From Scientific American • Feb. 6, 2020

Its presence in the film feels like lip service, an obligatory acknowledge of the fact that Megyn Kelly did, on one occasion in the remote past, do something wrong.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2019

Resthaven smelled of the remote past, but Borrowdale was close to the world Tendai knew.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer




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