memory

The more you remember something, the less accurate the memory becomes. (from an article titled Memory Is Fiction)

“The hallucinatory twilights, the nightmarish birds, the exquisite putrefactions of the mangrove swamps seemed the cherished memories of a past he had not lived.” –Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons.

Write the cherished memories of a past you have not lived in 13 words or less.