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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Growth

Amor fati

AH-mor FAH-tee

n.Loving your fate, including the parts you would not have chosen.

Stoic philosophy, later NietzscheLiterary term

The Wrong Train

The story, as told at his sixtieth, is that Ravi got on the wrong train in 1988 and met his wife.

It is a good story and he has told it perhaps four hundred times and it has been improved somewhat in transit, and it is also, he has come to believe, a lie about causation that has taken him thirty years to correct.

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The facts are these.

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