-If I somehow possessed a set of videotapes that contained all the most significant events of your childhood, in their entirety, would you want to see them?- Absolutely. Right this very second.- But why? Don't you think some of the tapes would be very sad?- Most of them, yes. But if I could see them, then I could have them in my brain like regular memories-horrible memories, yes, but regular memories, not sinister little ghosts in my head that pop out of some part of me I don't even know, and take the rest of me away. Do you know what I mean?- I think so, If you have to remeber, you'd rather do it in the front of your brain than in the back. . Martha Stout
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