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…showed last 75 words of 1782 total…seem the best example of the deep and lasting penetration of memories and rememories. Tony Morrison wants her readers to realize that life happens in the stream-of-consciousness format of these monologues: our past is never really the past; it only happened before. Therefore, Morrison suggests that the past is beloved, that it is a part of humanity to confront ones past, however painful. Only once one has understood oneself can one begin to truly live.