No record has been left behind of our shame in failing to resist.
What helps humanise it in this, its first remembrance season, are the wooden crosses that visitors have stuck in the top of the statue's bronze boots and the photographs they've left behind of young men with names such as Johnny Tucker and Jack Forrest.
Let yourself into a basement bedroom with a key card for David Rosenberg and Hannah Ringham's The Magical Number Seven, and you are in an apparently anonymous hotel room that takes on a life of its own, as if recalling the traces left behind of a previous guest.
Our species was once covered from head to toe in hair, and goosebumps are all that's left behind of that hairy past.
What's more, the foster cubs had a better overall survival rate, with 73% surviving until 33 weeks, than their biological siblings left behind, of which 63% survived, though this disparity had only marginal statistical significance.
Last year's fear of economic catastrophe that sucked so much money out of stocks and other investments appears to be giving way to a new form of anxiety: fear of being left behind, of losing a chance to recoup some of those devastating losses.
All that was left behind of the kid was a single nagging memory.
The only reason to think that is because I'm afraid of being left behind, of being abandoned, of that day when I'm suddenly no longer enough.
