Song: "Girls" by The Beastie Boys

Event: Childhood vacation/Faulty Memories

I have both a great memory and a terrible memory.  I can recall lines of dialogue, useless facts and other tidbits of trivia with ease.  I tend to remember the placement of items, the speeches of others and other outward displays of behavior.

What I can't do is remember dates well.  Or ages well, either.  I don't mean the difference between the Jurassic and cretaceous period.  I mean, I can never acutely recall how old I was when I experienced something.  I have vague understandings of when it occurred - and I can usually trace the event back to whatever grade I was in at the time.  But it's hard for me to definitively say I was X years old when Y occurred.

This may cause some uneasiness for readers of this feature - a feature that deals exclusively with my memories.

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