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"Memory is a marvelous device, a means of transporting ourselves to earlier times. We can go back a moment, or most of a life. But as we all know, it’s not perfect, and it’s certainly not literal. It’s a reconstruction of the facts and experiences on the basis of the way they were stored, not as they actually occurred. And it’s a reconstruction by a brain that is different from the one that formed the memory. Sometimes, details are lost, but the gist is there. At other times, we just can’t come up with what we’re looking for, though we know we once had the information. Occasionally, we remember things that didn’t actually happen."