Years of wondering why.
Circular thinking about the pain caused and the hours wasted on searching for reasons which never revealed themselves.
The making peace in order to be free, the wrestled forgiveness which releases the self from the talons of injustice.
Then one day you hear it in passing.
An off-the-cuff remark which brings back everything you have struggled to escape from. All the damage that was done - which meant nothing to them - has come back around to feed them its taste of poison.
And you wonder if it was the same for them as it was for you.