In the novel Station, Eleven Kirsten says “the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.” (Mandel 195) The points below make this statement true. First, when someone goes through something traumatic such as the Georgia Flu, they tend to forget memories from that time. An example of this is when Kirsten said “I can’t remember the year we spent on the road, and I think that means I can’t remember the worst of it.” (Mandel 195) Kirsten is saying that she can not remember the year that she spent on the road because it was the worst part of the collapse. Since she does not remember anything from that point in her life, she is not depressed from what happened. Second, the Georgia Flu began when Kirsten was young so she would not remember as many