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In every evocation of a childhood scene, my stepfather's face is the least detailed, the most out of focus; when I think of him my memory's eyes have ...more

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I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it.

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Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

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I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of w...more