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Tricycle
As the weeks went by, Nora began to feel something remarkable start to
happen.
She began to remember aspects of her life that she had never actually
lived.
For instance, one day someone she had never known in her root life – a
friend she had apparently known while studying and teaching at the
university – phoned her about meet ing for lunch. And as the caller ‘Lara’
came up on the phone, a name came to her – ‘Lara Br yan’ – and she pictured
her completely, and somehow knew her partner was called Mo, and that
they had a baby called Aldous. And then she met her and had all these
things confirmed.
is sort-of déjà-vu happened increasingly. Yes, of course there were the
occasional slip-ups she made – like ‘forgetting’ Ash had asthma (which he
tried to keep under control via running):
‘How long have you had it?’
‘Since I was seven.’
‘Oh yes, of course. I thought you’d said eczema.’
‘Nora, are you okay?’
‘Yes. Um, fine. It’s just I had some wine with Lara at lunch and I feel a bit
spaced out.’
But slowly, these slip-ups became less frequent. It was as though each day
was a piece fitting into a puzzle and, with each piece added, it became easier
to know what the absent pieces were going to look like.
Whereas in ever y other life she had been continually grasping for clues
and feeling like she was acting, in this one she increasingly found that the
