Alice Isn't Dead

by Joseph Fink

When a person leaves their home for a long time and then returns, the furniture, books, and appliances are all exactly how they had left them. This doesn’t sound weird, but it is. There was, after all, once a person who left those things in those places, and then months of life change that person, and this changed person returns to all the same stuff, still there. A person lives always

Events can change us so much that our “normal” feels and looks and just seems wrong as though it belongs in some other place or time or with some other person.