But I want you to come with me.” The Giver shook his head.
“Jonas,” he said,the community has depended, all these generations, back and back and back,
on a resident Receiver to hold their memories for them. I’ve turned over many of them to you in the past year.
And I can’t take them back. There’s no way for me to get them back if I have given them.
So if you escape, once you are gone—and, Jonas, you know that you can never return—Jonas nodded solemnly.
It was the terrifying part. “Yes,” he said, “I know. But if you come with me—
The Giver shook his head and made a gesture to silence him. He continued.
If you get away, if you get beyond, if you get to Elsewhere, it will mean that the community has to bear the burden themselves,
of the memories you had been holding for them. “I think that they can, and that they will acquire some wisdom.
But it will be desperately hard for them. When we lost Rosemary ten years ago,
and her memories returned to the people, they panicked.
And those were such few memories, compared to yours. When your memories return, they’ll need help.
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