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Some memories wake you up and there are some that keep you awake.
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We reach the final stage of healing from trauma when we integrate the past into who we are. It becomes a part of us that we acknowledge and provides understanding of our world.
The past is not a ghost we want to banish or exorcise; it is something we want to internalize.
Like at a wake, a wake as in a funeral, we speak of the dead for the dead. At this wake, we must defend the dead. Our memories must be longer than our lifetimes.
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