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This is called "Amnesia."

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It came out of watching
TV late one night,

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and suddenly I was
watching Citizen Kane.

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"I almost trust
myself to know when

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we're getting to that scene.

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Call it the snow
scene in Citizen Kane.

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The mother handing over her son.

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The earliest American dream,
shot in a black and white,

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where every flake of
snow is incandescent

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with its own burden.

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Adding up, always adding up
to the cold blur of the past.

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But first there is the
picture of the past--

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simple and pitiless,
as the deed truly was.

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The putting away of
a childish thing.

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Becoming a man means leaving
someone or something.

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Still, why must the snow
scene blot itself out,

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the flakes come down so fast,
so heavy, so unrevealing,

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over the something
that gets left behind?"

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