The Impact Of The Secrets You Keep
4 min readNov 20, 2020
My memories have been more vivid lately. Breaking through the haze of survival are some of my earliest vignettes of happiness, but also of shame. Over dinner one night with my boyfriend, I picked up a french fry and plopped down a memory.
“You know, when I was in elementary school I was so embarrassed because I always confused numbers,” I chewed on the thought and the fry.