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 heard once that as we age our short term memory fails but our long term memory becomes sharper. Which is why your grandpa can’t remember what he had for breakfast but details everything that happened to him in the third grade.