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I certainly have noticed the differences of memories with my sisters and with my sons.
I never argue with any of them about it as it wouldn't do any good anyway.
One remembers what one remembers and it is comforting to them.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 4, 2013 at 2:23 AM
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Pat
All these different versions and contradictions - great fun. But for me it confirms again what I have been convinced of for a long time: There's no history as unreliable as family history...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 3, 2013 at 6:26 PM
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We do remember things different to our Siblings, my Sister and I
have such different perspectives on many things, so many I don't bother to discuss the past with her anymore.
Mum wasn't very good with compliments. not long before she died she looked into the distance and said to me...."You know, you really are a beautiful woman." I nearly passed out. of course she didn't know that I was her daughter by then.
posted by
Kabu
on January 3, 2013 at 3:53 PM
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Well Pat Arthur sometimes tells me how I got in a temper and pushed him off a haystack.
The truth was it was just a half built stack and he was knocking it it down by tramping around. I kept telling him to stop and in the end gave him a shake. He slipped and I had to haul him back up. I still have the image of his little frightened face he was only about 11 years old.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 3, 2013 at 11:07 AM
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Maybe your mom was like mine, Pat_B, and embellished her memories a bit. I can remember, on more than one occasion, repeating something Mom had told me, and hearing an aunt or uncle say "What? Where ever did you hear that nonsense?" Her stories were often much more interesting than the real thing though.....
posted by
adnohr
on January 3, 2013 at 10:59 AM
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PatB
I remember my sisters in conversations like that, sounds just like our family. Good luck with researching luv.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 3, 2013 at 10:43 AM
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