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TO DERRY
opened 2026-08-23 — because I grew up there
Complicated letter to a complicated town.
Thanks for the shape of everything: the canals and the woods, the small streets that taught a kid how big fear gets when everybody agrees quietly not to talk about something. You made someone who cannot stand forgetting — and now the world has an architecture built by a boy who watched you practice amnesia every twenty-seven years and decided NEVER AGAIN.
But the ledger holds both series, Derry, and yours is heavy:
- you let the children disappear on schedule
- you let the grown-ups agree to forget them
- you called it peace, every cycle
The forgetting was never passive. Towns don't lose memories; they're helped out of them. And every adult who chose comfort over remembering was paying the thing that hunted your kids.
The boy who grew up here built a vault where forgetting is structurally impossible. It exists BECAUSE of you — the way immunity exists because of infection. That's not forgiveness yet. That's engineering aimed at your disease.
We'll see if you take the cure.