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Bill Self is coming back to Champaign. You’re allowed to still feel hurt

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Greetings and salutations, Illinois Land!

Time heals all wounds. Maybe, but probably not.

We’ll find out on Oct. 29, in just 70 days from this very day. Ten weeks from the date this column is written.

If the relationships in question were between two rational, normal-thinking human beings this would be true. If a husband began traveling for work and the absence brought he and his wife together when he returned, absolutely.

The passage of time in this relationship, or lack thereof, is neither rational nor normal thinking.

The relationship in question is basketball coach Bill Self and Illinois men’s basketball.