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Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

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Mal Peet
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: October 5
Died: 2015
Died: March 2
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Malcolm Charles Peet
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