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conulyFor just a second.
And this memory is so incredibly trivial I'm not surprised I'd forgotten it entirely - really, I'm more surprised I remember it at all!
I had brought home a trip slip to my parents which either had the words "tear here" at the bottom and my father insisted on cutting with scissors or, less likely but still plausible, it had the image of scissors and my father ripped it.
Either way, I was extremely upset that the instructions were not being properly followed.
Not that my teacher knew or cared. She only wanted the signature and, if there was one, the fee.
I have opened countless things and cut countless pieces of paper since then, and yet it suddenly popped into my brain yesterday?
The human mind is a strange and marvelous thing. Never doubt it.
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And this memory is so incredibly trivial I'm not surprised I'd forgotten it entirely - really, I'm more surprised I remember it at all!
I had brought home a trip slip to my parents which either had the words "tear here" at the bottom and my father insisted on cutting with scissors or, less likely but still plausible, it had the image of scissors and my father ripped it.
Either way, I was extremely upset that the instructions were not being properly followed.
Not that my teacher knew or cared. She only wanted the signature and, if there was one, the fee.
I have opened countless things and cut countless pieces of paper since then, and yet it suddenly popped into my brain yesterday?
The human mind is a strange and marvelous thing. Never doubt it.
The Incredible Tale of the Greatest Toy Man You've Never Known
The Scrolling Orb
A Forgotten Humanist Photographer of Paris
Zombie river? London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming back to life
The man turning cities into giant sponges to embrace floods
Communities consider managed retreat from climate change
India’s forgotten power broker: what was her secret?
Homer Plessy, key to ‘separate but equal,’ on road to pardon
Cities with empty offices see new room to expand housing
America's Only LGBTQ Historic District Is Falling Apart
After prison, the fight to be a firefighter
They Wanted to Foster Their Great-Grandson. Why Did New York Say No?
Your Red Snapper Filet Might Have Been Caught by Drug Runners
Freeways force out residents in communities of color — again
Conservative Justices Suddenly Discover Limits to Religious Liberty
Last rites rights of condemned around the world
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Date: 2021-11-13 02:55 pm (UTC)The human brain is astounding.
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