In "The Memory Time Machine" you go back and you revisit one moment from your past. It's not a moment you want to change. It's just a moment you'd like to linger in a little longer. What's the memory?
My aunts were rarely all in the same place at once. The maternal side of my family is small. My grandmother only had five children, and each of them only had 1 or 2. My mother was the outlier and had three children (but didn't intend to). I always wished we had a bigger family, one with lots of cousins and uncles and aunts who held big events together full of laughing and cooking and music. We didn't do family reunions or birthday get togethers at all, so the one time all of my aunts came to visit my grandmother while my siblings and I were living with her (during the time my mother was living in the US) made such a huge impression on me as a kid.
I remember waking up early in the morning to quiet, calm voices. The voices of my aunts and grandmother just talking to each other in tones meant not to wake us kids. I don't know what they were talking about but I remember feeling like the room was full of goodness. It was warmth and love and family, and I hadn't had many moments like that growing up. Bits of that experience have since slipped away from memory, but those few minutes after waking up have never left me.
