"You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.Sara looked directly into his eyesI nothing else, you need to remember that....
Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory.
~ Haruki Murakami ~
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Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory.
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