5. “What You Remember, Remembered You Back”2006

To the soldier who looked up at the balcony in Dora, Baghdad – 2006

You never spoke. You never waved. But you were always there.

Tall… quiet… always behind that Humvee. And I was always above – standing still, watching from the balcony, wrapped in silence and white.

I thought you’d never seen me. But years later, your words found me — across oceans, buried in a sea of others.

And I remembered everything.

I am not here by chance. I am the girl who came from 2006. And you… you already know the rest.

(– the girl on the balcony)