Video transcript
CApture 2024 – 03. More Than a Memory – Winmalee High School

[dramatic piano music playing]

TULLY: Do you ever think of that little girl? The one who loved to dress up as a fairy.

TULLY (CHILD): Bella, and I love fairies.

TULLY: Or do gymnastics?

[applause]

I keep her hidden away at the top of my wardrobe in a memory box. But is that all she is now-- a memory?

MOTHER: Surely better. Mwah, mwah, mwah.

TULLY (BABY): [groans]

TULLY: She had so many toys that she made up stories with and made artworks that when I look at now I can't recognise but I know back then had so much meaning.

And sometimes I get a little bit sad when I realise that I can't read the words that she's written anymore; that I'm not able to understand them, because everything in this box kind of acts like a reflection of who I was. But now, it feels like there's a divide between us, like I don't know her anymore.

MOTHER: What did you think, baby girl? Was it fun?

TULLY: Because my life right now kind of feels like--

[percussive music playing]

[click]

[click]

[printer whirrs]

[bell rings]

[printer whirrs]

[bell rings]

Which is nothing like what it used to be.

[gentle piano music playing]

I'm not sure where that little girl is anymore.

I can't find her most of the time.

Maybe I got too embarrassed and shut her up in a box somewhere.

But I don't want to be embarrassed by her anymore.

I don't want to tear her up or push her away.

I need to accept her because she is what makes me who I am.

I want to see the world through her eyes.

Because she is more than a memory.