And you live your life and you bury deep, and you get to a point where you barely ever think of it anymore. Things are better now. Things are good now. It was a lifetime ago.
And then something happens and you suddenly are face to face with it again. And it feels even uglier now, because you are so far removed from the place you used to be. But you have no choice but to face it again.
And it really, really, really sucks.