I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new.What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new.What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.