Do You Remember What You Hear?

From: Robert Karl Skoglund
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Humbleoats_small Perhaps the people who finally wrote down the Odyssey and the Icelandic Sagas heard it wrong

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Perhaps the people who finally wrote down the Odyssey and the Icelandic Sagas heard it wrong

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Can you remember things that people said to you 20, 30 or even 60 years ago? I can. Why do we remember these seemingly unimportant and insignificant words and phrases for years?
I can remember things that Paul Anderson and Ralph Cline and Mr. Frieder and Bruno Peterson and Alvin Hawkins said over 55 years ago, but when I wake up in the morning I can't remember what my wife said the night before.
I was coming home from Bangor, when a car behind me started blinking its lights. I stopped and jumped out, as did the young man who was flagging me. I said, "You've been drinking." My first impression, kind of struck me in the face. I had to mention it to him. He said, "Only a beer. I saw your name on the back of your truck and had to talk to you. You know, I saw you up at Union Fair in your model T truck 10 or so years ago and you told me that you never learn anything after you're in the sev...
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