Comments on: Apparently http://www.melalane.com/melapress/2007/05/22/apparently/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:43:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Midwestern 007 http://www.melalane.com/melapress/2007/05/22/apparently/#comment-69 Midwestern 007 Wed, 23 May 2007 18:28:10 +0000 http://www.melalane.com/melapress/2007/05/22/apparently/#comment-69 That's the funny thing about memory, especially in families. They say that all the kids in a family will generally have a totally different version of how they grew up--even of the exact same events--because of who they are and how they percieve things. My sister and I do this all the time, and it's like, "Are we sure we're related? Cuz clearly you didn't actually grow up in the same house as me." Always makes me wonder then what the truth is, and I guess it's just in there, somewhere, in between all the versions. Maybe your brother was there, but in your memory he wasn't, because your pain felt so unique and big that you felt isolated and alone, and therefore, remembered it that way. I think that would make sense when you're dealing with something this huge. Just a theory. In any case, thanks for bleeding on the page for us. That’s the funny thing about memory, especially in families. They say that all the kids in a family will generally have a totally different version of how they grew up–even of the exact same events–because of who they are and how they percieve things.

My sister and I do this all the time, and it’s like, “Are we sure we’re related? Cuz clearly you didn’t actually grow up in the same house as me.”

Always makes me wonder then what the truth is, and I guess it’s just in there, somewhere, in between all the versions.

Maybe your brother was there, but in your memory he wasn’t, because your pain felt so unique and big that you felt isolated and alone, and therefore, remembered it that way.

I think that would make sense when you’re dealing with something this huge.

Just a theory.

In any case, thanks for bleeding on the page for us.

]]> By: haircutter http://www.melalane.com/melapress/2007/05/22/apparently/#comment-70 haircutter Wed, 23 May 2007 18:34:51 +0000 http://www.melalane.com/melapress/2007/05/22/apparently/#comment-70 Yeah, midwest., I like the way you put that. Yeah, midwest., I like the way you put that.

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