The Woman Who Forgot on Purpose
わざと忘れた女性
Mina has worked at the Memory Bank for almost three years.
The company stores the memories that people no longer want to keep.
Every day, clients arrive who wish to forget something .
Mina has met many people who cannot sleep because of their past.
She has always believed that her work helps them live again.
One cold morning, a woman named Elena entered the quiet office.
She asked for the longest and most expensive service.
"I want to forget everything about the last five years," she said.
Mina has rarely received such a heavy from one .
She explained the process to the woman who sat nervously before her.
"The machine copies your memories and then removes them very ."
Elena signed the forms and lay back on the soft chair.
Mina has performed this hundreds of times without a problem.
She placed a thin silver band around the woman's tired forehead.
Soon the screen filled with images that belonged to Elena's life.
Mina saw a wedding, a hospital, and a child who was laughing.
She never studied the memories closely, because privacy was the first rule.
The started, and the pictures began to one by one.
When it ended, Elena smiled as if a great weight had gone.
She thanked Mina warmly and walked out into the grey street.
Afterwards, Mina checked the system to that everything had cleared.
But one bright memory still glowed quietly on the dark screen.
It showed the same laughing child, as clear and warm as ever.
In three years, Mina has never seen a memory .
A cold question filled her mind: why had this one refused to disappear?