the.com/clean slate
A fresh start nobody actually gives you — you build it yourself, smudges and all.
literal originWax tablets schoolkids wiped blank to reuse
legal cousinExpungement erases criminal records like a real reset
tabula rasaPhilosophers argued minds start as blank slates
financial versionBankruptcy is the law's official do-over button
the catchYou still carry the memory of the mess