Lea Page is the author of Parenting in the Here and Now: Finding the Strengths You Already Have. Her essays are forthcoming or have appeared in The Washington Post, The Establishment, Krista Tippett's On Being Blog and Hippocampus Magazine, among others. Visit her at www.LeaPageAuthor.com.
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?