February 13, 1998

Last night I had a dream. Remember Dachau with rows upon rows of building foundations but no barracks? I remember thinking, “Why did they remove the buildings?” and got the answer, “So they wouldn’t hear the screaming.”

It was very strange until I started wondering what it meant.

What have I removed from my memory so I wouldn’t have to hear the screaming?

It wasn’t until 2009 as I flipped through old journals to create Verbal Abuse Journals that I found one such forgotten memory – an instance of physical abuse.

Will physically abused me in 1996 and I had forgotten about it altogether until reading my entry.