2003: Sunnydale, Houston

The Nature of Memory, and my Bar Mitzvah

It’s been 21 years since we bought that cardboard cut-out of Buffy. The house has since been flooded, the primary players recast. I look back on it all as if it were someone else’s life. And yet, some totems remain. I am known.

This specific incarnation of Sarah Michelle Gellar could only have been from the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, my f…