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Memory's a funny thing. We all rely on it to get by in the world our memories help us build

the library of narratives that we use to define ourselves to the world our ability to recall past

events help us navigate the present and plan for the future but memory is incredibly fallible

and malleable and our brains are prone to remember stuff that

simply never happened. Recently, you may recall the idea of the Mandela effect, which highlighted

how perplexed average people were to find out that some of their precious recollections

were simply wrong. Rather than chuckle at the realization, many people instead postulated that something

caused the world to change and that their own personal incorrect memories are the only

record of this reality fracture.

Now this is, on the face of it, incredibly self-aggrandizing.

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