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Quote #10
He did not want to tell his mother about Hatsue Miyamoto and how he had, many years ago, felt certain they would be married. He did not want to tell her about the hollow cedar tree where they'd met so many times. He had never told anybody about those days; he had worked hard to forget them. Now the trial had brought all of that back. (24.50)
Regardless of Ishmael's contention that he had managed to forget his past with Hatsue until the trial, the fact that he's been totally unable to develop a meaningful personal life and move beyond his post-war numbness indicates his memories and the past have been very much present for him all along.