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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

The origins of any people’s presence on a particular territory often lie in the remote past and documenting them requires following obscure academics and mythmakers down their rabbit holes.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2021

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

As we have already hinted, there is other evidence for the presence of flowing water on Mars in the remote past, and even extending to the present.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

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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