Here & There (80 page)

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As memory fractures into bits and pieces, it is misplaced a little at a time. In those losses, we find how memory is what makes us who we are. There is no life, no self without memory. It is our consistency of reason and feeling. Without it—

I am terrified by the encroaching amnesia that devoured my mother and now hungers for me.

~Viridiana Séverine,
Los Olvidados

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None of this shows up anywhere in the information given to me by the Department. Officially, this never happened.