I had dinner every night with my Dad (0-21 :-) and lots of time with him but nothing much memorable happened. There's nothing really to recover? The one or two largest memories are when he was away 8 months when I was 7 and 8 and he came back and I was sure it wasn't him :-) I sat while my older brothers, stepsister and stepmother were all excited to see him when he got home but I was sure he was an imposter, he didn't look like anyone I knew. He had gifts for me though so I finally gave in Another memory I have is when we worked together during the summers when I was in college and one day we were leaving (carpooled together, just he and I) it started to rain and my 58 or so year old father started jogging to the car! I'd never remembered seeing him ever break stride and I was startled to see him running instead of just hunkering down and walking faster or something.

But I don't think there's a whole lot to remember about anyone where there's not any exotic events? Think of your elementary school teachers with whom you were stuck with for 6 hours a day 5 days a week for 9 months; 1080 hours. What do you remember of any of those individuals? 1 or 2 startling events probably that stick out for you where they individually expressed an emotion to or about you (yelled at you, praised you, etc.). Most things happen around us instead of to us. We don't remember the around stuff I don't think, just the stuff that is about us personally. My mother died when I was 3 and I have a memory from before she died but I have no memory of my mother. Probably because it's harder for real young people without words to have memories since they require words but also, she was "there", sick or watching me but not the two of us interacting together with both of us "on the same page" as they say in therapy.