Julianne Neely is a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her work can be found in McSweeney's, Hobart, Pacifica Literary Review, and more. Follow her on Twitter: @juleneely.
But I didn’t understand, then, how important memory is, for how do we know who we are without memory? How does anyone else know who we are, but for their memories of us?