Fantasies are a way of rewriting childhood history, sometimes to wreak revenge on abusive or absent adults, sometimes to sanitise memories of them.

ECONOMIST: Sexual fantasies

Sometimes it's a phone call from a long absent friend, checking on you.

NPR: The Learning Curve of Gratitude

He seemed bemused by his transformation from loner to the man everyone wanted to speak to, and perhaps as a defence, he was absent-minded: he had only one lecture a year to give at Oxford, but sometimes he forgot to turn up.

ECONOMIST: Bill Hamilton

Thus, absent recoveries from any third-parties for their involvement in the scheme, clawback litigation is also sometimes the sole method of increasing victim recoveries.

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