Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose…

Neil Gaiman
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Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely. ✨ Smoke and Mirrors. Book by Neil Gaiman, October, 1998.
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