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	Spotless mind?

balthazarus

12-26-2008 5:05 AM

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memory, neuroscience

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12-26-2008 5:40 AM

tabsey

Matched with the attempts to rewrite history by many, it makes a pair. FISH

12-26-2008 6:36 AM

ianschneider

Learning to forget is something I'd give up a lot for - like a lot of people I have the seeming inability to forget a slight. I forgive them, but that does not imply my approval.

/ian andrew schneider/

12-26-2008 10:07 PM

tanyamm

I don't think I'd want to do that. Every memory, good or bad is what makes me who I am and helps me to want to be a better person.

12-26-2008 10:32 PM

Silkweaver

I would like also to write a few memories I am badly missing....

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