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The writer must trick the reader (and herself) into believing that she actually remembers how she felt decades ago.
These were the days before pharmacological fixes, so no one had any choice but to talk and talk and talk until the demons got bored and left on their own.
he might instruct me to tug at a memory from the web of my childhood until I could see how it was attached to the rest of my life.
to sketch for the reader the image of an older man escorting a teenage girl—flush with sex—past a mirrored tiki bar into a dark private booth in the rear of a restaurant.
