Rather than being something to simply pacify, that worry became a thread that led back to psychic burdens, long accommodated but, in a flinch or a startled reaction, not fully forgotten.
But like a fly buzzing about their heads, eluding their attempts to swat him away, comes Doug Flutie, the Buffalo quarterback who figures to pester the Jets in their game today, just enough to ensure that the Jets have fully forgotten the Miami Dolphins.
Years went by and, like I said earlier, I fully forgot about the whole ordeal.
Eventually I regained the ability to look his mom in the eye, but never fully forgot the sound of her Anglo-shrieks.
Some instances are too bizarre to be fully forgotten, like the businessman who hired a team of private investigators to try and implicate an old school friend who had moved to Holland.
While speaking positively in all respects engenders loving feelings in those most attuned to words of affirmation, harsh or condemning words will have the opposite effect, sometimes causing deep emotional wounds that may never be fully forgotten.
Karpichkov is used to exile now but my sense is that even after a decade in London he has to live by Moscow rules – to accept that he will never be able to relax fully, or to forget his old instincts and training in counter-surveillance.
But I don't want to forget – not fully.
So it's easy to forget that fully half of this show is devoted to celebrating television programmes.
