FADER

(n) We say someone fades from our memory. A fader dissolves from the world itself. A fader is someone who does not seem to exist--though the fader is still there, no one in the world wants to recognize that fact. Plural is faders, and indicates each and every fader in a group. Faders are the forgotten souls, the forgetten dreams that slipped away. Faders are everywhere. Example: 1. On the street corner in the middle of winter, a fader sits and begs for food. 2. When I was only four years old, my father went to the corner grocery to get a pack of cigarettes. He never returned. I barely remember him; my mother refuses to, because he deserted us. He was a father; now he's a fader.