‘How can I take these feelings seriously when they are in fact echoes of what occurred long ago?’

“I know less but I see more.”

‘I know from experience that nothing makes us feel lonelier than feeling invisible.’

‘Am I writing to be seen, just to feel the gaze of my readers?’

‘Had our desire to fantasize been stronger than our grasp on reality?’ 

“Has my stock of memories grown so much in these sixty-eight years that it is beginning to inundate the number of things I can fantasize about, like an overflowing reservoir?”

“By sharing his remembrances, our lives become even more intertwined”

"Was my desire to be back in that moment of not knowing so overpowering that it swept away those forty years?" 

‘I feel that I haven't even started to untangle the complexities in the world and in my head.’ 

 ‘The power of support and collaboration has marked these past thirty-five years as much as the many challenges.’