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Robert Hurtgen

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Robert Hurtgen is a husband, father, minister and writer. Read more of him at robhurtgen.wordpress.com.

Moving past your past

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Jules Vern popularized it. Marty McFly made it cool. At the flip of a switch, or strike of lightning, they could move to the past, to the future and back again. It would be fun to dive back into the 1950s or to leap ahead to explore the amazing advances of the future. Perhaps though most of us would take a smaller leap, say to last week to relive that conversation and try to fix what didn't quite go as we thought it would.

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