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Originally Posted by Katiana
Surely she knows she was only 3 months old when the family left Idaho. I agree this is miniscule, but still. . . .
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And now that somebody's pointed it out to her, I suspect she's going, "Oh ****. That's right."
I have collected family memories for more than 30 years. About a quarter of them turn out to be just like this one. My own sister blessed me with a raft of memories about our grandfather... who died a month before she was born.
This is the way memory works folks. All of us hold memories that are not true. Every single one of us.
Most of us, though, are not subject to the constant attention of anal fact checkers trying to catch us in tiny errors of detail.
Claiming you are a Vietnam Vet when you're not... that's a lie.
A manufactured memory regarding an old family story? Not a lie.
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