We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our sto — Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our sto — Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our sto — Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our sto — Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our sto — Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
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We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us ... we are doing the work of memory.

— Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
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