VisDare 32: Undecided
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How could it have been invisible for decades to herself, her parade of husbands, her friends, her doctors, her therapist? Emma knew it was true at the moment of her wide awake nightmare. The voice in her mind that coached her through the screaming agony of remembering was one of her.
Emma heard the words “multiple personalities” recently but could not comprehend the meaning of fragmented selves hidden within amnesia from early childhood until the height of one’s career in their thirties or forties. The voice that coached her was a character in the novel she had written. She’d heard his voice many times but as dialog.
At age 44, the life she thought she had lived came crashing down. Oddly, knowing the voice of her character was actually a helping personality became an immediate comfort. The time had come to relive her nightmare consciously.
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Ooops ... will these voices haunt?
ReplyDeleteThank you for reading, Amrit. No, not haunting voices. The memories that come thru the amnesia are the scary part.
DeleteWwwwoooooooow. Just...wow. I'm speechless. This is BRILLIANT.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Angela! The image spoke my language. "Brilliant"...okay that made my day, week and probably month.
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