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memory-3

Original: memory-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Woman (younger, with brown hair): Do you still miss Mom?

Panel 2:
Older man (with glasses): Every day.

Panel 3:
Older man: When you get on in years, all you have is memories. Faded, tattered things, worn down because so well loved.

Panel 4:
Older man: I try to recall the moments most dear to me, but each time I think of them, it's like they change, and I can't tell what's true memory and what's some new construction I've pressed over the truth.

Panel 5:
Older man: Anyway my point is I wish I'd taken explicit photos of your mother back when she was twenty-five.

Panel 6:
Woman (looking disturbed): Hokay thanks for the nostalgia enjoy the rest of your evening.

Votey:
Older man (thought/speech): I've been thinking of taking up photo-realistic painting.

Alt text

A six-panel comic. A younger woman with brown hair asks an older bespectacled man, "Do you still miss Mom?" He replies, "Every day." He continues wistfully: "When you get on in years, all you have is memories. Faded, tattered things, worn down because so well loved. I try to recall the moments most dear to me, but each time I think of them, it's like they change, and I can't tell what's true memory and what's some new construction I've pressed over the truth." Then, deadpan: "Anyway my point is I wish I'd taken explicit photos of your mother back when she was twenty-five." The woman, looking deeply unsettled, says, "Hokay thanks for the nostalgia enjoy the rest of your evening." Votey: A close-up of the old man's slightly creepy face as he muses, "I've been thinking of taking up photo-realistic painting."

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.