“I think that a lot of other children saw those things that were wrong, and made vows never to forget. And they were true, and good. But they did not realize how powerful the forgetting that comes with Growing Up can be. Most of them, nearly all of them, were overwhelmed. But somewhere deep within them, they still remember. And this is part of the problem; because they must somehow explain to themselves how they were willing to forget. Or why they did. And for so very long…”

— infraheard