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confront one's demons

To work through past experiences that have left emotional scars.
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But a personal and almost menopausal crisis brings him back to an Edinburgh he hardly recognises. As if in a Sergio Leone film, Renton has an obscure need to return, to confront the demons of his past, in particular the three guys he ripped off after a drug deal at the end of the last story.

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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