Cicero said, “Not to study what happened before one was born is to remain always a child.” It is to be in that naïveté that sees oneself at the center of a story. It is that naïveté of a child that considers the world to revolve around them. And not only that, it also negates—or forces us to not be able to see—it forces us to not be able to see the complexities of who we truly are. We study history not as dates and persons and events, not in definitions of lexicons and encyclopedias, but we study