It is revealed that both John and Jane share a bitter, complicated past.

Three weeks later, Ogrodnick is no more certain about his future and a little more understanding of the bitter past.

Turns out she has had a bitter past with him.

But this was only the past, the bitter sad past in which I'd deserted her.

Rehashing the bitter past was not going to do any good.

All yet seems well; and if it end so meet, The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

A bitter past, blocking any accomplishment of a future except age.

But the bitter past of layoffs haunts the industry's thriving present.

Officially, this is a long-planned and final step in the parties' agreement to bury their bitter past.

But Buthelezi, who had sought this historic meeting for nearly a year, would not let go of the bitter past so easily.