We live in ruins, which are by turns abandoned, inhabited, excavated, and destroyed. The shards of the past may be pieced together so as to comfort us with the illusion of commensurate memory. It was like this, we say, except that there were no pieces missing, and the cracks weren’t visible.
—Carolyn Forche—The Province of Radical Solitude
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