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Is It So Hard for Us to See Our Parents Without First Laundering Them Through Our Need for Enity, Longing and Progress?
My parents arrived in oregon in nineteen seventy nine, bought a used dodge dart swinger and immediately began hiking around the mountains of the pacific northwest. I see this period in the soft sun glazed light of the old japanese camera they lugged around. These images float pleasantly and suggest a happier time before i show up as a fat cheeked, almost formless baby. We don't know exactly why we are here, but here we are. But while my fantasies about parents at my age are rooted in a need to see them as happy and ambitious, chungs philum as animated through yon's acting shows them for who they were. Perhaps that's the only...