Your memory has a compass.
Like your nose and your tastebuds, that compass has familiar smells and comfort foods and warns you of allergies.
Sometimes you eat things you’re allergic to because that thing is hidden under sauce.
I remembered this place immediately when I woke up.
Blinked once, determined my back was to the south wall. I can tell you where everything in town is in relation to this place.
I’m allergic to this place, never would have come here voluntarily.
I just laughed, more of a cough with a smile.
No one comes here voluntarily.
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