Again, my heart beats and grows and expands as a result of all of those experiences, joyful as well as painful. And heartache? Ah, I can’t imagine choosing to erase that, tempting as it is. Failing is no fun, but if I only experienced - or remembered experiencing - success, then I’d be pretty full of myself, no doubt. Experiencing grief, for example, is terribly painful, but it gives me a greater capacity to empathize with others. So much of who I am is based on what I’ve experienced and how I’ve handled situations. When my book, The Forgetting Spell, came out, readers were particularly intrigued by one of the book’s hypothetical questions: If I could wish to have certain memories erased, knowing that my wish would come true, would I? If so, which memories, moments or events might I want to forget? If You Could Forget…Would You? Willow tree
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