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About Kate Chen

Writing a memoir about writing a memoir while experiencing memory loss caused by multiple sclerosis. Graduate of GrubStreet's Memoir Generator and Memoir Incubator. Published in Momentum's humor section, National Multiple Sclerosis Magazine. Former Executive Directive, Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science; Director of Gifts and Grants, Harvard Sten Cell Institute; Communications Manager, Western Academy of Beijing. Vassar College, '90, Philosophy major I live in Allston, MA my old and spunky beagle-basset named Sunday.

Bonanza

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I dreamt that an expanding rift appeared, a hole growing in space and time, with ragged, torn and burning edges.   A green product about the size of an ATM with robot arms coming out of the top, appeared in the hole.  I knew the machine was the answer to a product that a friend has been struggle to design.   And then it was gone, answer gone too, and horses started leaping out the rift.

Triptych

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I dreamt that there were two dogs wandering through my Easter party though I only have one dog.  Every time I pointed this out, one of the dogs lay perfectly on top of the other completely obscuring him so nobody believed there were two.   My bed was in  the living room and had a very nice sink beside it.   I had never noticed that.  And then a Mardi Gras party went by.

I am not Spartacus

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I dreamt I was in a chariot race holding on to the rail behind charioteer Spartacus.   I was looking back at my right leg which was severed but for one sinew keeping it waving in the wind.   I was annoyed that it was slowing us down with its drag.

 

[I think it was Ben Hur, not Spartacus, who raced a chariot, both as played by Kirk Douglas.  Regardless, in the dream, it was Kirk Douglas, as Spartacus, in a chariot.]

Mountain lion

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I dreamt that I went outside to save my dog from a flood.  I saw a rabbit drowning and I got him to follow me.  Then I found my dog drowning and got him to follow behind the rabbit.  Then I found a mountain lion under my car and I ran for the house with the dog and the rabbit following behind.  We just made it into the house and shut ourselves in the bathroom.  The lion followed and was left just outside the bathroom door.  The rabbit and the dog, standing up on their hind legs, and I had a discussion about the lion, and we decided that he was the one that we knew was nice.  We let him into the bathroom and all four of us, including the lion,  continued to hide from him.