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The sentence:  

> これまでの私 **とは** 違うんです

translates to

> I am not the same as before

according to the anki deck I am currently using. I can't see why it means this
(maybe because I don't understand what the とは particle means in this case) no
matter how i look at it. Any help would be appreciated
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particle-は particle-と
とは particle in a sentence
This とは is a simple combination of two independent particles. This と is a
particle that marks a comparison target. This は is the topic/contrast marker.
As you may know, the topic marker can [directly follow から, まで, に, で,
etc](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/17574/5010).

  * [How is と used in these sentences?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/57038/5010) (See the last half of Chocolate's answer)
  * [What about this combination of と and や](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/52559/5010)

If you haven't learned ～と違う yet, let's memorize it as a common set phrase
meaning "to differ from ～".

これまでの私 is a noun phrase meaning "my past self", "the old me". So a very
literal translation of the sentence would be "As for (the comparison with) my
past self, (it) differs."
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