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Old Apr 28, 2016, 06:59 PM
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Hello defyinggravity65: Well... I don't know as I have any particular memories of things that may not have happened. However, I have quite a lot of very "shadowy" memories... memories that are so long ago, & so vague, that I only have the vaguest recollection of them. I also have a lot of memories where I don't know if I really remember them, or if what I remember is something my parents later told me about having happened years later. I'm an older person now & much of my young life has long since faded into the distance. I have read that memories are not at all as solid as we would like to imagine. And in fact it is possible to implant memories of things that never happened into peoples' minds. So I'm always cautious about assuming any memory I have is actually accurate.
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