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I’ll Always Remember

How experiences become memories, which turn into stories

Timothy Kreider
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readJul 31, 2020

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Paper-cut image of layers of a man’s head, with egg at the core.
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My friend Lisa and I have a very specific, limited relationship: We make mix CDs (and more recently, playlists) of soundtrack music for each other. Yet it’s also oddly intimate: a shared love of music bares something in you — especially love of an uncool, schmaltzy genre like movie scores. I…

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Timothy Kreider
Human Parts

Tim Kreider is the author of two essay collections, and a frequent contributor to Medium and The New York Times. He lives in NYC and the Chesapeake Bay area.