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The British novelist L. P. Hartley is remembered chiefly for the novel and movie version of "The Go-Between," beginning with "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." True enough, as we old-timers gaze back into our memories. We may dimly recognize ourselves in them, but tend to be surprised by what we discover, either pleasantly or unpleasantly, most likely as in a foreign country. So we ca…