Possible explanation: suppression of memories too threatening to bear.
Another possibility: different people remember differently. My younger brother remembers a great deal more about our childhood than I do. Is this because he has less to suppress? Is it because we are built differently? Both?
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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