TEXT: The first place you live alone, away from your family, he said, is the first place you become a person, the first place you become yourself. IMAGE: Helly R. laying on a meeting table.

Try to remember as much as you can. And because memories beget more memories, you always remember more than you think is even there. The ones that are hidden from ourselves are the most revealing ....

TEXT: It was the anonymity. He wanted to be unknown, unpossessed by others' knowledge of him. That was freedom. IMAGE: Mark in the elevator.

TEXT: How long do you plan on locking me in for? I asked, and as soon as I asked, I knew it was going to happen, I was going to get locked in. Asking acknowledged the authority to do this to me.

TEXT: If you are an individual employed by a corporation or an institution, he said, then the odds are leveraged against you. The larger party always wins. It can't see you, but it can crush you.

TEXT: To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out? IMAGE: Dylan's caricature.

TEXT: Because I remember too, I remember perfectly. My memories replay, unprompted, on repeat. And our days, like theirs, continue in an infinite loop. We drive, we sleep, we drive some more ...

TEXT: I didn't know what to do, so I pushed it to the farthest corner of my mind. I got up. I went to work in the morning. I went home in the evening. I repeated the routine. IMAGE: Mark at home.

TEXT: I didn't know them. I didn't know what their jobs were or what their lives were like. I was just passing through. I was just doing my job. IMAGE: Helly looking at the photo display at the gala.