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Harry Sylvester Bird

Lindsay

It was there for anyone to see, with even the most minimal of research, and yet. Either they truthfully did not know, or they were pretending not to know to spare their guilty consciences. If they did know, I decided, it was a lesson: One could have one’s cake and eat it too. All one had to do was to cultivate a selective form of amnesia.

If they didn’t know, no problem. Simply wear your ignorance with confidence, like a God- given and indisputable birthright.

Despite my brief existence on earth, I knew enough to know that blood was not in fact love. Love was love because of memory. Love without memory was null. Blood with the wrong kind of memory was also null.

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