You don't get rid of them. You learn from them, and you work what you've learned into your life (and your future memories). Eventually, everything fits into perspective. You know why things happened. You know what you did or didn't do that made things go down the way they did, and you know what things were really not under your control. You accept all those things. You figure out who you are. The memories will always be with you, but they won't haunt you. Instead, they'll serve you, like a set of pictures you can take out and look at to remind yourself of something, or to find new insights in.
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