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This is a good story, but this...

"Memories are only tracks in now anyway; you don’t see the hare or the lynx so much as conclude that they must have been there, and retrace the path they took."

...is a great line, a brilliant framing of this insight of memory I've never seen before. I'll be thinking about it any time I stumble over some interesting tracks and start retracing the steps they took to arrive in the now.

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Agreed - it’s lovely.

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What an absolutely beautiful, achingly poignant story, and full of wonderful lines like " I didn’t feel winter as cold so much as still—a pause in the world, before the great uprush of spring set us all in motion again."

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This spoke to my heart.

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So glad to hear this!

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This is absolutely gorgeous!

(By the way, did you intend to post the text twice?)

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We had a bit of. a substack wobble there. Getting it sorted.

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