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Forgets

Mike from Vancouver said:

"Plural the word can encompass all of the forgetting that needs to be done.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. Bible, King James Version

More romantic is the full original proverb below.

Solomon’s proverbs, xxxi. 6,7.
As quoted in Robert Burns Poem, Scotch Drink.

Gie him strong Drink until he wink,
That’s drinking in dispair;
An’ liquor guid to fire his bluid
That’s prest wi’ grief an’ care:
There let him bowse an’ deep carouse,
Wi’ bumpers flowing o’er,
Till he forgets his loves or debts,
An minds his griefs no more.

From the American dictionary.

To banish from one’s thoughts.

To cease remembering.

From the Col. John McCrae Poem,

Lest we forget, short days ago, we lived, felt dawn saw sunsets’ glow.

Forgive and forget

Forggetaboutit"

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