The Long Dream
Did you have those forty years?
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The Long Dream
You fall asleep at eleven and wake at seven. In between you lived forty years: a different name, a house by water, children whose faces you'd know anywhere, a slow illness, a funeral that was yours. You wake up crying about a daughter who doesn't exist. By lunchtime you can only remember four of the forty years.
Did you have those forty years?
Then ask
- Would you take a pill that gave you a happy version of that every night?
- Are you allowed to grieve the daughter?
- If you remembered all forty perfectly, would your answer change?
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