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That Wednesday, I learned to listen.

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But when I close my eyes, I am still there. It is Wednesday, 1991. It is 4:47 PM. The clock on the VCR is blinking 12:00. I am lying on the carpet. I am doing nothing. wednesday 1991

Inside, the house was a cathedral of hums. The refrigerator. The fish tank filter. The low static hiss of the television on channel 3, waiting for the Nintendo to wake up. That Wednesday, I learned to listen

This is the part of the memory that feels like drowning. I had three hours until dinner. Three hours until my dad came home and asked, "What did you do today?" It is 4:47 PM

There is a specific Wednesday in the autumn of 1991 that I am convinced no one else remembers. I couldn’t tell you the date on the calendar—October 16th, perhaps, or the 23rd. The days bled into one another back then. But I remember the weight of that Wednesday. The smell of a mimeograph machine in a damp hallway. The specific drone of a fluorescent light. The way the world felt both suffocatingly small and terrifyingly infinite.