Last night, I had an odd experience. I had been wondering about my sense of two child parts - they are very similar, and so, I've kind of gone back and forth on "is it one or two?" And... it was quite clear last night that there's 2 and that one of them is a bit older than the other.

It was really obvious for a time - I suppose that the older one (who is less often there...) made herself quite obvious. And, she brought memories with her that were 'new' to me. (I put that in quotes because my experience of recovering memories is always more like "remembering to remember" if that makes sense. It's different from like my mom telling me something I've lost -- when I recover memories/a part shares memories, it's not as stark feeling? It's more like that moment when you remember something you'd just had in mind but forgotten. I don't know.)

Well, I'd actually forgotten about this entire experience from last night until just now as I was vacuuming and thinking too much (ha)... only now I can't even remember the memories that were shared...