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Added July 15, 2015
I was still quite a small girl when I decided to kidnap Enzo Ponza.
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Enzo Ponza
Joanna Walsh
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2015
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You missed that. Right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you. You are missing the events unfolding in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you.
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My earliest memories involve fire. I watched Watts, Detroit, and Atlanta burn on the evening news, I saw oceans of mangroves and palm fronds smolder in napalm as Cronkite spoke of lateral disarmament and a war that had lost its reason.