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WILLIAMSTOWN â One of the gifts in my personal retirement package is an agile selective memory.
I find myself easily able to brighten the highlights and burnish the low points of a 28-year career in publishing, time spent mostly as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers, including, for 21 years, The Eagle.
When I joined the ranks of the retired in 2005, my private recollections were in a far different order of importance than they are now. How, for instance, could the horror of hearing an enraged woman threaten over the telephone to stab her husband and then suit action to words, driving a steak knife into his upper thigh, ever fade?