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Our lives are time travel, moving in one direction only

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A shorter version of this essay originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine, May 12, 1996. Reprinted in I‘ve Always Meant to Tell You: Letters to Our Mothers. Edited by Constance Warloe.

Edited and arranged by Robert Friedman

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