The excerpt “My American Childhood” from Stephen Colbert’s I Am America (And So Can You!) serves as a model for this prompt.
Prompt: Take Colbert’s abstractions at the end of his first memory (faith, family, furry friends, fear of the elderly) and tie one or several of these themes to a specific event in your life, an early memory. Recall smells, tastes, sounds, names, places. This doesn’t need to be funny, but there does need to be some kind of conflict. Don’t just describe the time you lost your tooth. What did losing a tooth mean to you as a child? What did you fear? What did you want to happen? Spend about ten minutes in quiet contemplation before you write.
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