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• Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading
  Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done?...
• The past is still the past. -- Beck
• So sure are you! Tried have you? Always with you it can't be done.
  Hear you nothing that I say? Try not. Do! Do! Or do not....
• Lie about the past, then try to repeat it. -- Liberal Rule # 6
• The past is not what it will be.