“Dear Dr. McGaugh, As I sit here trying to figure out where to begin explaining why I am writing you and your colleague (LC) I just hope somehow you can help me. I am thirty-four years old and since I was eleven I have had this unbelievable ability to recall my past…”That was how James McGaugh first met a woman called Jill Price. Price, now 48, has a memory that’s truly as astounding as she claimed. Give her any date in her past and she’ll tell you what day it fell on, exactly what she was doing at the time, and any important events that took place. She knows that Easter Day fell on April 11 in 1993 (she had spaghetti for dinner) and on April
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