How do people writing biographies recall their lives in such detail. I barely remember my childhood just bits and pieces here and there. But nothing close to writing a book.

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How do people writing biographies recall their lives in such detail. I barely remember my childhood just bits and pieces here and there. But nothing close to writing a book.

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I suspect that people with larger and closer families remember their childhoods better in part because they swap stories about one another so many times. You remember the time something happened because it has been brought up at Christmas and birthdays and funerals for many years. You even imagine that you remember things that you were too young to remember, but you get the details right because they’ve been fed to you over and over again. You get five or ten people all contributing their own details about the time your grandmother set the kitchen on fire.