Then there wouldn’t be a new Receiver, but you would already have given away an awful lot of important memories,
so even though they would select a new Receiver, the memories would be gone except for the shreds that you have left of them?
And then what if—” He started to laugh, suddenly. “I sound like my sister, Lily,” he said, amused at himself.
The Giver looked at him gravely. “You just stay away from the river, my friend,” he said.
The community lost Rosemary after five weeks and it was a disaster for them. I don’t know what the community would do if they lost you.”
Why was it a disaster?” “I think I mentioned to you once,” The Giver reminded him, “that when she was gone, the memories came back to the people.
If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
Rosemary had only those five weeks worth, and most of them were good ones.
But there were those few terrible memories, the ones that had overwhelmed her.
For a while they overwhelmed the community. All those feelings! They’d never experienced that before.
“I was so devastated by my own grief at her loss, and my own feeling of failure, that I didn’t even try to help them through it. I was angry, too.”
The Giver was quiet for a moment, obviously thinking.
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