Where were your bangs in 1991?

From Whence we Came
Originally uploaded by mchughtie.

Since 1991 every molecule in your body has replaced itself twice over. If I replaced every part in my 1991 Saab 900, (I'm well on my way) would it be a different car by now? Do Erin and I have some of each other's molecules? Yesterday she took a sip from my bottle. I was, still am, ill. Will she get sick from the bottle or from some kind of physical empathy she knows of my germs? Is she breathing through lungs she built out of me? Did we absorb our cardboard president, our ugly tees, Tammy's hairspray or my mother's giddy grin? In some way, I suppose, we must have.