She’d told Dot how horrific memories were blocked, how a lie told over and over becomes the truth of the past, but also how the mind holds that truth and how Dot’s subconscious had attempted to tell it to her over and over in dreams and hints and images until Dot would listen. The experts called it memory reframing, and Dot had been young enough for a lying adult to shift the cornerstone and bedrock of her early childhood.

