Nickole Brown reflects on how her inability to form memories as a result of childhood trauma had adversely affected her ability to survive.
Survival has to do with remembering what you most do not want to face. It has to do with not turning away, in believing your own testimony, in writing it down. Then, just like that, my memory was given back to me, whole and real, simply because she’d remembered it, because that’s what witnessing does.
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