The Pact of Forgetting
Can you memory-hole fascism? Let's ask Spain.
The owner of our airbnb apartment in San Sebastian was a sweet-faced man in his mid-thirties who worked as a police officer. Like many of the people my husband and I had spoken to during our time in Spain, he was surprised to learn that we were from California. “You came such a long way!” he said, in Spanish.
“We wanted to be a long way from Trump,” my …
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