But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a … - Jane Yolen

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Jane Yolen

But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no longer recall anything from the past. I cannot remember, she whispered to herself. I cannot remember. She's been shorn of memory as brutally as she'd been shorn of her hair, without permission, without reason. . . Gone, all gone, she thought again wildly, no longer even sure what was gone, what she was mourning.

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