what they will say

I was almost three when little brother was born. But I remember things before that. Things that even daddy forgot until I reminded him - and he confirmed. Like the condo we lived in, and how the playground was behind our house, and that we had barstools, and the day we moved.

All of that happened when I was 2. And even now it is completely clear. I could draw floor plans of that house - I have.

So if anybody tells me that I cannot possibly remember, that there is simply no way for all of those details to be lodged in my head - they are full of it.

Or maybe they are just afraid for me to speak the truth - because when it finally comes out, when they are unveiled - there will be more than one psycho who gets her comeuppance.

And they will all say it - because they would rather forget than face it - they will say, "It wasn't that bad."

But it was.