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There is something particularly painful about backsliding. Here you are, making change for the better, and then you look away for a moment out of distraction or trouble or just plain laziness, and all of a sudden you're right back where you were before -- only now you have a memory of how it felt when things were better, and a stark new understanding of how easy it is to lose.
(Memo to middle school English/Language Arts teachers: THIS is what happens when you assign "Flowers for Algernon" to seventh graders. :P )