What do you guys think happens when you share a memory with one other person and the two of you don’t talk anymore so the memory twists and fades in each of your minds until it becomes something unrecognizable to one another
For example do you remember the summer you spent a week with me at a house where I was dogsitting this big dopey chocolate lab whose name I’ve forgotten. Maybe ollie but I don’t think it was ollie. And I don’t know any more if it was because you didn’t want to go home or you couldn’t. And I wonder now if you were sick of being nice to everyone just because you didn’t want to go home or you couldn’t. And one night when we were out walking the dog he ate a diaper of the ground and we both freaked out but he was ok i think. And one day when we were eating pupusas on the back porch the dog’s owner’s ex husband came by unannounced to pick up some stuff and it was so awkward and scary. And the night before you left we went out drinking in the city— I don’t remember where— and we got some really awful chinese take out on the way back and then we stayed up til 3am watching the x files and eating take out and jalapeño cheetos and drinking absinthe mixed with sprite even though i had to leave for work at like 4am because i did morning shifts at a bakery. And i felt so sick at work all day but i also felt kind of cool like a rock star and happy I’d get to see you again when i got back to the house and again every day for our whole senior year of college. That’s what I remember. What do you remember? Do you remember the dogs name? Were you happy? Do you remember where we went drinking in the city? Do you remember the cheetos? The absinthe? Do you remember my name? Are you happy now? Did you read my emails? Did I get something wrong? Did I miss something important? Something that would explain why you stopped writing back? Do you think I’m angry with you now? Do you think about me at all? Do you know I think of you?