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The retelling of a conversation I had with my grandfather while driving to North York to get his dentures replaced. Prompted by a roadside fire, he recalls the destruction of his old storefront during the Lebanese Civil War, amidst escalating paramilitary violence.
Alternating between present-tense storytelling and historical narrative, I consider the spaces where we remember the things we’ve lost—in this case, on Highway 401 in a beige ‘07 Toyota Camry.