Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragran...
You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night.
() imp. & p. p. of Flee.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flee