Memories

I hope you're reading this.

You have to remember.

I know how much we want to forget. I also know that what they did to us made us forget. It took me twenty-seven years, but it came back.

It came back all at once, with the sensations, the sounds, the smells, the pain, the hunger, as if I were there again. Everything they did. Everything they did to both of you. I broke the dissociation.

Do you remember the moths? There was a Great Peacock Moth. I didn't know its name at the time, but it was one. It was stuck with us. We gave it a nickname, but I don't remember it.

You would pull the dog's chain to get it to come and warm you.

One day, we found a whole colony of processionary caterpillars. I blew on it, and my head swelled.

I know it's not enough. I have to show you it's real, so you'll remember.

Join me on Ulysse's journey for I show you it. You know : an astronaut.