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Memory Card, Simone S. Leitner
Memory Card, Simone S. Leitner
Senior Projects Spring 2015
“I have always had a phenomenal memory,” a sentiment that I just recently remembered. Growing up I could recite every number in a thirteen string, remember a poem after one read, quote every menial conversation I had ever had. I considered myself cursed and blessed with an elephant’s memory: it made me extremely sensitive to others, often confused and upset when I heard people repeat the same things to me and make the same gestures. Had our interaction not meant anything? Do they not remember me?
Now I don’t remember. I lose things. I feel irresponsible with objects and conversations …