( She hesitates, turning both options over in her mind. Neither is quite right. She didn't choose not to think about it; it hadn't been reachable. Not forgotten, not forever, but forgotten for the time being. And it hadn't all come back at once. There'd been no dam that broke, revealing all these things.
They'd come back in pieces, until the narration started to make sense again, with gaps and stutters like an incomplete reel. Watching a movie that had audio on, but skipped, screen going dark and starting up again somewhere further along.
She shakes her head, licking nutella off her spoon. )
Kind of not either? It hasn't all come back to me. I just remember most of it now. Stuff would remind me? Here and there, like seeing something out of the corner of your eye in a place you walk by all the time, only noticing it for real for the first time.
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They'd come back in pieces, until the narration started to make sense again, with gaps and stutters like an incomplete reel. Watching a movie that had audio on, but skipped, screen going dark and starting up again somewhere further along.
She shakes her head, licking nutella off her spoon. )
Kind of not either? It hasn't all come back to me. I just remember most of it now. Stuff would remind me? Here and there, like seeing something out of the corner of your eye in a place you walk by all the time, only noticing it for real for the first time.