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The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.Dinaw Mengestu
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We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.Dinaw Mengestu
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In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.Dinaw Mengestu