Writer's Block: Do you remember?
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"El toque! El toque!"
My earliest memory is of freaking out because either we or somebody we knew was going to have something horrible horrible happen to them because they were out after curfew (toque) in Santiago, shortly after Pinochet took over. I would've been almost three years old, as the coup happened on September 11 and I turned three in December.
I'm told that apparently when I freaked out it was early afternoon, and thus nowhere near curfew time, but apparently my time sense was about as sophisticated as that of most two year olds.
"El toque! El toque!"
My earliest memory is of freaking out because either we or somebody we knew was going to have something horrible horrible happen to them because they were out after curfew (toque) in Santiago, shortly after Pinochet took over. I would've been almost three years old, as the coup happened on September 11 and I turned three in December.
I'm told that apparently when I freaked out it was early afternoon, and thus nowhere near curfew time, but apparently my time sense was about as sophisticated as that of most two year olds.
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Date: 2010-09-28 01:45 pm (UTC)Obviously, I know you were born in Chile, and I know that your family left after the coup, but somehow I never quite put together that you would've been there and might have memories of it. And how horrifying that a child so young would have such awareness of that.
My earliest memory is of trying to poison myself.