IN: She began to eye a particularly deep one that ran in a straight line from the inside of her elbow all the way to the middle of her forearm . She knew what was there . She had seen and felt them put it in . The memories came rushing back , she tried to shake them off but they still appeared . After the vicious questioning , Regina was placed back on the ground where she collapsed and moaned in pain .
What may have been the reason Regina was trying to shake off the memories ?

OUT: The thoughts were too horrifying to remember so she tried not to think about them .

IN: He was a part of me in a way I would never know while living . And here , in the distorted heaven projected around me , I finally could . And damn if the words did n't make tears sting in my eyes . I would have been embarrassed , but I think I was past all that .
Why was I past all that ?

OUT: If you have true hardship then small things like public emotion become meaningless .

IN: Maybe the purpose of living is to live . In every sense of the word . There 's more to life than frittering time away on tedious office tasks .
What might have happened to cause this perspective to develop in the writer ?

OUT:
They might have had a near death experience .