The author says that loneliness can be dealt with by rocking in a fetal position, and the loneliness needs to move. Eventually, everyone forgets Beloved. Sethe, Denver and Paul D have a harder time forgetting, but they forget her because it is better than remembering her. They forget her like a bad dream. However, every so often, they think they see her face in a photograph.
In the stream behind 124, her footprints are sometimes.....
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