Media Memories

  
I have memories of Star Wars and Scooby Doo and of being so afraid of snakes I had to leave Raiders of the Lost Ark. I remember Family Ties, Who's the Boss, and Facts of Life. I remember the not too distant future of Fahrenheit 451, the mythic past of Dracula, and the land of the Wild Things. And they rattle and reassemble themselves as pieces of my history more real and tangible than actual memories for I have revisited them more frequently than the memories of fights, arguments, and tempers. Yet they are not real, which reminds me that the fights, arguments, and tempers might be real, but they are not truth.

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