This Is Why You Forget Some Things And Remember Others
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We talked to scientists who study the way our memory works — and they were both sympathetic and reassuring.
This morning, heading out the door to take my 9-year-old daughter to school, I patted my pockets to confirm “phone-keys-wallet.” This is a little ritual intended to keep me from having to run back for any of these essential items, or, worse, from locking myself out of the house.
Once we were on the subway, I remembered that my daughter needed to finish reading a chapter in her class novel. I unzipped her backpack and began searching for the book’s pale blue dust jacket. But it wasn’t there.
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