December 2011
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“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to...”
– Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
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Grief
Some day between 1987 and 1988, I was riding my bicycle (with training wheels) down the driveway of my family’s home in Fussa, a city in western Tokyo, Japan. My knee was scarred that day and if I hold my knee up to a light I can still see the smooth, light-toned skin that remains of that faded scar. I remember falling off my bike because a white minivan had turned into our long driveway, speeding...