Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember

by Lauren Graham

Sometimes we polish an experience to make facts line up more closely with feelings or exaggerate moments to make a better dinner party tale. And sometimes, mercifully, details become blurry over time, maybe because the sharp reality is too painful to carry.

I only wondered and worried about how long it was going to take. “Someday” doesn’t like to tell you when it plans to arrive.

Sometimes, mercifully, without our even asking it to, memory holds hands with fact and helps dull its edges during times when reality is too overwhelming to fully take in a joyous moment, like the birth of a child, or in a darker one, when pain is too great to comprehend, like the loss of a loved one.