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"help to define & shape us" they do, but before the memories came that which remembers them, didn't it? Thus, they don't make you. Memory is individual. I shudder to think that the reason we remember events differently is because different things happened to each of us sharing the same experience in space & time. I look at my bookshelves & realize I don't remember most of what most of the books were even about, but remember minor things with excruciating clarity & almost nobody's phone numbers... I didn't read the book you mention, but believe we can communicate across the vast boundaries between us without sharing any personal knowledge. Memory is fragile, frangible, flexible, & priceless. Referential compost, if you will.
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