#earliest memory

Dracula crawling down the side of the castle wall face down is not unlike my first memory. I was under two years old and escaped my crib, face down, holding onto the bars. I fell and hit the carpet, getting a rug burn under the left side of my then tiny, short nose. There are several pictures of me smiling with the new scab still visible.

According to my mom when I was 2 we went to the drivein theater and we saw Shrek at like 11 at night, and I stayed awake for the whole time. I have a very vivid memory of a scene from that movie that had a bridge. I do not, as far as I know, remember anything else from when I was 2, but I do remember things from when I was 3. This means that my earliest memory is very likely Shrek.

Imagine your earliest memory is waking up in the middle of the road in Asgard. You don’t know who you are or who your family is. You somehow end up becoming the gardener in the palace growing close with Frigga and Loki over the years. Loki observing you from afar asking you for plants for ingredients for magic. One day Loki going through some old paintings in a hidden chamber finds a painting of a royal family with a little girl who looks just like you. Loki tells Frigga what he discovered and she assigns him to teach you how to be a princess, how to write in cursive, how to properly greet members of the court, and how to dance. It’s hard to put behind a life as a maid as you always try to clean things. At times he gets impatient with you but when he’s teaching you how to waltz he realizes that he loves you. And he wants you to be his princess. (This is based on the animated film Anastasia.)

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