This Is Us
The Body Records, But the Mind Transcribes
Notes on a childhood memory
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10 min readJan 5, 2021
My earliest memory, and thus the beginning of my selfhood, has absence at its heart. I don’t remember much about knocking out my front tooth. By that I mean I have an incomplete, fragmentary recollection of what happened Before and what happened After. I remember sliding around the kitchen floor in my…