[lit-ideas] Re: Vanunu's Secret
- From: JulieReneB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:30:33 EDT
Yes!!!
<<"Even brothers and sisters
grow up in different families.">>
========Original Message======== Subj:[lit-ideas] Re: Vanunu's Secret
Date:4/29/2004 8:09:47 PM Central Daylight Time
From:mccreery@xxxxxxx
To:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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
The Word Works, Ltd.
55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama, Japan 220-0006
Tel 81-45-314-9324
Email mccreery@xxxxxxx
"Making Symbols is Our Business"
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