One woman dentist from Dublin confessed, when asked why she had come to the program, ‘‘It’s my forgotten culture that I don’t want to forget.’’ Another informant expressed most succinctly what many others intimated: ‘‘I came here to find my real past, my past self, myself.’
－Eileen M. Quinn, "Entextualizing Famine, Reconstituting
Self: Testimonial Narratives from Ireland" (76).
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