another metaphor is of the tidal wave; a family/group can be running from their trauma tsunami and all it takes is one member turning around to face it for them to be forced to reckon with all their emotions coming at them, a mile tall and a mile wide, at 800kmphhttps://twitter.com/Aryeh___/status/1215318320754245632 …
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It’s especially interesting to track the different ways people embellish, refactor, and omit details from the stories When they talk about family history and life before immigrating, my mom’s accounts are always strikingly different from my dad’s
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It was really shocking to switch from the stories of the holocaust i heard in orthodox circles to the stories i read in secular books/ heard from more secular survivors
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