The older a memory, the more dreamlike it feels. A memory is an opportunity to inject surrealism into realist prose.
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At sixty, Octavio Solis’s memories from youth began feeling more like dreams. He chose to write them down in an act of reclaiming them as authentic. But as he wrote, even his most accurate memories began to take on a strange unreality similar to his dreamlike past.
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