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Reading the article made me think a lot about what happens to me when I am asked to remember something. I thought about something that happen just last night, my dad was trying to remember something that happen about 8 years ago, when he called about his glasses. He tried to say that my older sister was there, but she wasn’t. My brother and I argued with him and told him, she wasn’t there and my dad was just in denial about my sister been there. Since, my brother and I were there, we helped him sort of remember what happen and how it happen. Looking back to the article, memories can be made new by adding certain information in. Also, by the information we already know, such as who was there, where it happened, how many times we have told the

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