‘Sometimes it’s intriguing to see some remembered feature or characteristic reappear. A way of walking, the shape of an ear, a tone of voice, a swiftly changing mood. Such small details, and yet, in an instant they evoke memories of another decade, a different place, a faraway but half-forgotten world.”

So wrote Ruth Enke Chambers in the introduction to her autobiography which can be read here.

Let’s explore that idea a bit.

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