Our Memories Lie to Us

What We Remember Is Often Not What Actually Happened

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”

― Marcel Proust

In a world of supposed fake news, alternative facts, skewed polls, and misremembered anecdotes, it can sometimes be difficult to know what is real and what is not.

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