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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Regret

n.Thought that circles a hurt without moving it.

Clinical and cognitive psychologyEstablished psychological concept

The Eleventh Replay

It is 3:14 in the morning and Neha is in a meeting that ended four months ago.

She has been in this meeting, on and off, for one hundred and nineteen nights.

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The transcript, as her brain insists on running it:

Sanjay says the projections are optimistic.

She says they are based on the Q2 figures.

He says — and this is the load-bearing sentence, this is the one the whole apparatus is built around — he says, "Well, if we're all comfortable with that."

And she says nothing.

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