And you described for me that the failure of the last new Receiver released painful memories to the community.
“But I haven’t suffered, Giver. Not really.” Jonas smiled.
“Oh, I remember the sunburn you gave me on the very first day. But that wasn’t so terrible.
What is it that makes you suffer so much? If you gave some of it to me, maybe your pain would be less.”
The Giver nodded. “Lie down,” he said. “It’s time, I suppose. I can’t shield you forever.
You’ll have to take it all on eventually. “Let me think,” he went on, when Jonas was on the bed, waiting, a little fearful.
“All right,” The Giver said after a moment, “I’ve decided. We’ll start with something familiar. Let’s go once again to a hill, and a sled.”
He placed his hands on Jonas’s back.
Fourteen
IT WAS MUCH the same, this memory, though the hill seemed to be a different one, steeper,
and the snow was not falling as thickly as it had before. It was colder, also, Jonas perceived.
He could see, as he sat waiting at the top of the hill, that the snow beneath the sled was not thick and soft as it had been before,
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