Every once in a while, when talking to my wife, I'll bring up something unpleasant that happened years before. "Remember…?" I'll say, bringing up some event at which I still shake my head. Inevitably, she'll shrug and tell me she has absolutely no memory of the stressful event. She claims she has a magical ability to block out things she doesn't want to remember, to pretend so hard that it didn't happen that, to her, it didn't. It's a skill I've always envied.

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