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I was generally content for photography to be photography, for video to be video, and for memory to be memory, sad as I sometimes was to know that when time disappears so does most of what filled it.
Part of population of memoir writing is the widespread realization that you do not have to be a celebrity or politician to have a life story worth writing about.
There is enough sadness for five families twice the size of theirs. Because that’s how life is, is what Thomas likes to remind us. Everything happens. One thing after another and then something else, and then another thing that overlaps with another. And you hope that you can live with it. Maybe even learn to like it.
You hold an unsullied, childish notion that your soul, once breaking free of mortal restraint, will move on the wings of wind in the company of Dolly and other beloved creatures who have left the Earth.
