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[Repetition and anaphora] replicate the experience of repeated impact on a body. If you don’t live a life where you have to negotiate a version of the same erasure over and over you can’t know how that feels. Repetition simply says, Here it comes again. Ready?

Reparenting Affirmations for Child Abuse Survivors

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

…the body is not merely matter but a continual and incessant /materializing/ of possibility.

I believe I was trying to remind myself of how it had felt to be wordless, completely of the physical world–that even before my body was an instrument for language it had been an instrument for memory.

Feral moments so valuable you never share them with anyone.