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I had a lot of rage that I look back on with amusement.
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The speaker remembers having a great deal of anger in the past. Looking back now, they find that intense rage amusing rather than threatening or overwhelming. The sentence contrasts the seriousness of the feeling at the time with the lighter way it is viewed in retrospect.
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