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“We know that now. Vehicles of transportation include, according to the scholar of memory studies Marianne Hirsch, "narratives, actions and symptoms." The stories we tell and don't tell, the actions we take and don't take, the symptoms expressed by a mother holding the trauma tightly to herself, because she refused to burden her children with it.”

Carmel Mc Mahon, In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History
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In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History by Carmel Mc Mahon
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