Can You Forget a Year of Your Life?

My body held onto a painful year even as my mind moved on

Photo of the author (A friend of mine once said to me, “Did you really need to add cheese to your burger?”)

As my husband and I zipped along the St. Louis highway in our rental car, I noticed that we were close to a private school where I had taught in 1994.

“Can we take a short detour?” I asked. I felt the urge to revisit a place I hadn’t seen in almost 2 decades.