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Date: February 11, 2019

"You can't take your eyes off his eyes--blue and unblinking, as he confronts the world like a camera with the shutter left open, permitting the images to burn into his brain."

— Lane, Anthony (b. 1962)

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Date: 2024

"She reminds me of someone but my mind won't let me flick through the files and find out who."

— Dolly Alderton (b. 1988)

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Date: 2024

"I wish I could explain to him that I don't want to think about her any more, but thinking about her is not a choice; that--even though Jen is no longer in my physical life--the room inside my mind that has been occupied by her for the last four years still exists. I want to convert it to a home ...

— Dolly Alderton (b. 1988)

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Date: 2024

"Sometimes I wake up and the first thing I think of if Jen, and I imagine the tiny version of her in a doll's house bedroom in my brain and I'm comforted by Imaginary Jen who wants to keep my company for a little bit longer."

— Dolly Alderton (b. 1988)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.