[lit-ideas] Re: Vanunu's Secret

On 2004/04/29, at 23:47, JulieReneB@xxxxxxx wrote:

> My Mother and brother have been talking lately about family memories.  
> It's
> the oddest thing.  We can each point to a particular incident in our 
> home when
> my bro and I were growing up and his description of the incident, my
> description, and Mom's are so dissparate that you would never know we 
> were remembering
> the same event.  It makes figuring out who was right and who was wrong 
> and
> what could have happened differently and, if it's still relevant, what 
> to do
> about it or with it now absolutely impossible.  Collective memory is 
> tricky indeed.

I had a similar experience last December. While in Georgia for my 
mother's funeral, I was sitting around talking with cousins I hadn't 
seen for a long time, reminiscing about various events we remembered. I 
remember clearly my cousin Sally saying, "Even brothers and sisters 
grow up in different families."



John L. McCreery
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