Pictures were taken

and we'd like to see them now, because we were beautiful then. We'd like to be beautiful again, and in memory we will be.....

We're nearly ready, we're always almost ready and it takes only a little time for the vessels to flush and fill with memory, and then we can open our eyes, lift our heads, sit up in our beds, and turn to meet your gaze. We'll tell you what we remember;

Maile Chapman. Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto.

He was still too young

to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

Gabriel García Márquez. Love in the Time of Cholera.