Suits their purpose for more violence and repression, though.

But He's in hiding

Does it have much afterlife?

I can't think of the best ur-example, but lost child/lost beloved---> reunion after decades, as in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, has a long throughline. One archetype of this sort is the Constance story, popular in the middle ages (in Gower and Chaucer), and magically turning up in Jane Eyre.

Morte D'Arthur -- Camelot, Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, etc.
Holy Grail - Galahad, Lancelot

Someone who's lied to himself all his life now has an army of mini-mes to do it for him.

and...

Did you ever have to go
When you felt like staying,
Who feels it knows it.