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Mom’s idea of a surprise has always been less Happy birthday and more Look at this vaguely nightmarish thing I found in the backyard.
“Maybe is a match in the dark,” I murmur, half to myself. It’s one of Mom’s favorite sayings, for when she gets stuck on a story. She starts giving herself options, potential threads, turning every dead end into a new path with one simple word: maybe. Maybe is a rope in a hole, or the key to a door. Maybe is how you find the way out.
“Why is it that when kids believe in something, adults write it off as imagination, but when adults believe in something, people assume it’s true?”
Understanding the past helps us move through the present and discover the future.”
And remembering the past helps us move on, I think. Helps us let go.
