A half-century of San Diego stories from the Reader So much of identity is memory. There’s experience; maybe we chase it, maybe it just washes over us. But memory is what makes experience stick, what …
Family with gorilla statue. ‘‘Man is the animal who knows he must die.”
Posted January 27, 1983
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January 27, 1983