1. What memory still produces a physical reaction? 

Tightening, heat, the urge to leave the room. Start with the body, then find the scene attached to it.

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2. What did you conclude from it about what you could expect? 

Children draw conclusions and then stop revising them. Write yours as a flat rule.

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3. What did you need then that nobody provided? 

Not what you wanted. What you needed. Someone to notice, to intervene, to say it out loud, to stay.

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4. What did you love then that you dropped? 

A game, a sound, a way of moving. Why did it stop, and who was watching when it did.

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5. What would you say to them that nobody said to you? 

Say it to the child in the first memory. Not general encouragement. The sentence they needed in that room.