Our lives, for the most part, are defined by a handful of vivid, important memories that we clench to our hearts with childish fervor; we carry them like neon scars, tracing, outlining our souls like sorrowful hand-me-down clothes. As the years clatter toward oblivion, the layers thicken and burden our bending backs. Sometimes, we find ways to shed pieces of this weight and let it fall upon the roads of our past, reducing our ghosts to mere withering echoes in our cracked and bent rear-view mirrors. Well, that is exactly what this story is; this is my escape.
"Must it be? It must be."
This particular memory was formed behind