There There

by Tommy Orange

Oakland had changed so much, that so much development had happened there, that the there of her childhood, the there there, was gone, there was no there there anymore. Dene wants to tell him it’s what happened to Native people, he wants to explain that they’re not the same, that Dene is Native, born and raised in Oakland, from Oakland.

The internet is like a brain trying to figure out a brain.

Leave them alone and memories blur into summary.