A CHILDHOOD MEMORY OF MY MOTHER EXERCISE. Recall a childhood memory from your early school days, something that you can’t get out of your mind even though years have passed, something that’s still somewhat unresolved, something that you regret, something that changed you, something that helped shape the person you are today. An object may help you recall such a moment: a jar of paste, the braids of a girl in your class, a pair of scissors, etc. a kashmiri shawl Write some opening lines that use the object to set a narrative or a meditation into motion while at the same time beginning to create a persona on the page. An example from “Chop Suey”: “My mother was a champion bowler in Thailand. This was not what I knew of her.” 2. Write a few lines that further establish who you were at that period of your life. Begin, if you wish, with the words, “I was. . . .” Fill in the blank in a way that gives you and the readers an idea of who you were within the moment that you’r
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