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You make the past known in order to know yourself as changed.

The resistance to memoirs about trauma is always in part in often nothing but a resistance to movements for social justice.

“ I stayed up all night reading. I kept turning the lights off, but then I’d turn the light back on a keep reading “
“But you know how it ends”
“I still needed to know that you were going to be all right”
That’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read

Writing your story does not change what happened, but it can change your relationship to what happened—and that change can be meaningful in itself.