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I wrote down a memory from my grandma's kitchen and it unlocked a bunch more
I was trying to remember her recipe for potato pancakes, so I wrote down the smell of her kitchen and the sound of the old metal grater. After I wrote that, I suddenly remembered the yellow linoleum floor and the radio she always had on. It was like one detail pulled the rest up. Has anyone else had a memory start with just one small thing like that?
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cora5181d ago
Wait, does it really feel like one detail pulls the rest up for you? I always find it's more like the memory was already there, just blurry, and writing it down makes you focus. Like @avery219 finding that keychain, maybe it just made them stop and actually think about their dad's car for a minute. The hook was always there, we just finally grabbed it.
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avery2191d ago
Yeah, it's wild how that works. I was cleaning out a drawer and found this old keychain, and suddenly I could picture my dad's first car perfectly. The brain just needs that one little hook to pull everything else up, you know?
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