Along with helping people reconnect with old flames, childhood friends and even long-lost relatives, the Internet is giving rise to a newer phenomenon: the decades-late apology.

网络正在帮助人们重新联络昔日恋人、儿时好友甚至是失散多年的亲人，并带来了一种较新的现象：迟来数十年的道歉。

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The idea itself is based on a 200-year-old observation that electricity can manipulate fire, either causing the flames to bend and twist, or snuffing it out entirely.

这个想法本身是基于200年前的一个观察：即电可以操纵火焰，要么引起火焰弯曲和扭转，要么把它完全扼杀。

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Leave it in the past. Old flames are like old tax returns… put them in the file cabinet for three years, and then you cut them loose.

过去的就过去了吧。旧的恋情就像旧的扣缴税单，保存三年就可以扔了。

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Career changers and old flames need to be told what to do, rather than already knowing .

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"All I could see were flames coming from my old studio and the roof of the building was completely gutted and I could see right through, " she said.

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In the heat of war, an old church had been engulfed in flames, and the fire had revealed an unknown medieval mural.

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