There's a present tense.
And a past (past perfect) tense.
And there's an imperfect (past imperfect) tense.
But no tense for a past event still very much alive in the present tense.
2002 to 2006 live on in my mind every, every day.
I can't shake it and it's killing me.
Tonight is / was perfect walking weather. Wow, wow, wow, how wonderful it was to take day-long, and late-evening, midnight walks with Pat.
