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May 8, 2006
We had a neighbor for a couple years when I was little. She liked me to come sit in her kitchen, so she kept cookies around. We'd met because her little niece stayed with them over the summers, and the niece would play with me even when my friends wouldn't.
There are things that come back to you, retranslated with age and experience, and one of the conversations we'd had once hit me as heartbreaking once I understood it. She told me it was important to remember everyone who had been in your life, everyone who had been a part of you, even if it had just been a month or two. Her memorials weren't quite like Hannah's, she used little glass animals, but I counted thirteen of them on the shelf.
Thirteen is a lot of glass animal memorials.
Time constraints can, of course, can change the way I read things, but there were other reasons I needed to get through this piece so fast.
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