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I don't think I would want to remember everything - repression of bad memories is essential to one's health.
1 posted on 05/10/2008 11:27:18 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
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To: Arec Barrwin

I read the article. What was it about again?


3 posted on 05/10/2008 11:32:35 PM PDT by sourcery (Libertarians are not Conservatives. But then, neither are most Republicans...)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Somewhere she has a twin whose brain is like Jell-0 and can’t remember anything except sniper fire in Bosnia....


5 posted on 05/10/2008 11:35:57 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Does she know about Blackjack?


6 posted on 05/10/2008 11:37:29 PM PDT by VR-21
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To: Arec Barrwin

I wonder if she remembers everything she reads or hears? That could be useful I guess.


7 posted on 05/10/2008 11:54:47 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Good thing she never worked for the Clintons.


9 posted on 05/11/2008 12:05:59 AM PDT by Ezekiel
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To: Arec Barrwin
Total recall?


11 posted on 05/11/2008 12:12:43 AM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Vegas.


12 posted on 05/11/2008 12:16:30 AM PDT by DB
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To: Arec Barrwin

There’s that famous guy with autism, that can remember everything he has read and if you give him a date he can tell you what the weather was like and what day of week it was on. I think the movie Rain Man was loosely based on him.


15 posted on 05/11/2008 12:43:46 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Arec Barrwin

“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, & soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.”
—Mark Twain


18 posted on 05/11/2008 1:15:26 AM PDT by Bobalu (What do I know, I'm a Typical White Guy)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Yeah, I am going to go there. The reason why she is a fairly young widow is her husband couldnt catch a break anywhere. SHE REMEMBErS EVERYthing and spouts it back to him, like “NO YOU WORE BROWN SHOES THAT DAY” “WeLL I remember when you were talking to that hussy 10 years ago.” ect....


20 posted on 05/11/2008 1:46:10 AM PDT by Liberty2007 ( Send your Prayers to Lebanon and Israel)
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To: Arec Barrwin

The woman who can remember everything? At first I thought they were talking about my wife!


22 posted on 05/11/2008 2:21:08 AM PDT by eastcobb
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To: Arec Barrwin

The movie TOTAL RECALL has no begining. The whole thing is the implant.


24 posted on 05/11/2008 3:42:46 AM PDT by machenation ("it can't happen here" Frank Zappa)
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To: Arec Barrwin

My wife misremembers everything, always in her favor.


26 posted on 05/11/2008 4:29:36 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS
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To: Arec Barrwin
" . . I also recall every bad decision, insult and excruciating embarrassment. Over the years it has eaten me up. It has kind of paralysed me."

Hey, me too. It's called being neurotic.

32 posted on 05/11/2008 5:09:08 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (A Zero Tolerance Policy isnÂ’t a one way street.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Perhaps she’s really from Tralfamador


33 posted on 05/11/2008 5:13:11 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Arec Barrwin

This woman’s story is entirely believeable.
When I was about 34 or 35, I somehow acquired the ability to remember everything I read, I can even tell you page and paragraph number and if there are illustrations on a page. It is strange though; when I read something, it isn’t available for recall for about a week to ten days, then it’s like looking stuff up in a book in the library. Here’s the really weird part. My oldest daughter, now 36, has the same ability. She started noticing it about 2 years ago, about the same age that I was when I acquired it. It doesn’t work for experiences or non-written stuff though, I still have a hard time with peoples names and stuff I’m told verbally, and I couldn’t tell you what I ate for lunch 2 days ago, but if I write it down and read it, it stores like a photo.


35 posted on 05/11/2008 6:06:33 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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