-If all you really wanted was to be done, you could just—decide to be done, without writing. Just walk away, and let everything left unsaid, _remain_ unsaid. If that doesn't seem satisfactory, it's probably because of some some deep, uncancellable convinction that the memoir is _not_ stupid, that the religious leaders _did_ betray you and their faith, that someone _should_ care, that telling the Whole Dumb Story—telling it _right_, so that every graf _sings_ and hits the exact notes of righteous fury and deconfusion and penetrating portraiture—is _part_ of your life, and not a prerequisite to indulging the part that comes after.
+If all you really wanted was to be done, you could just—decide to be done, without writing. Just walk away, and let everything left unsaid, _remain_ unsaid. If that doesn't seem satisfactory, it's probably because of some deep, uncancellable conviction that the memoir is _not_ stupid, that the religious leaders _did_ betray you and their faith, that someone _should_ care, that telling the Whole Dumb Story—telling it _right_, so that every graf _sings_ and hits the exact notes of righteous fury and deconfusion and penetrating portraiture—is _part_ of your life, and not a prerequisite to indulging the part that comes after.