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… [H]e retreats behind religious platitudes, empty sloganeering and half-truths."
What I do know is that the story made for a fun read: A 35-year-old Londoner named Rob with the maturity level of a high-school junior dumps his girlfriend and retreats to his pathetic job in a music shop.
In the end, the narrator, Ben, retreats into generic memory-play mode: "If I'd known things would no longer be, I'd have tried harder to remember them."
The group is organized on the “the compadrazco system,” meeting regularly and holding yearly retreats.
Y2M retreats lamely with a soft "M."