As a boy, my earliest memory of being a customer revolves around a sweet old lady who sold penny candy from her porch to my friends and me on our way home from school.

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My memory is fuzzy as to who all was there.

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My own memory of Wes Hall is, as an 11-year-old seeing my first Test match, at the Bourda Oval in Georgetown in 1965.

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Superseding these and many other recollections of Kennedy the senator is my vivid memory of him as a person uniquely able to distract and comfort others in distress.

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"In my memory, that was just about as bad as it could get and as brazen as it could get, " Delainey said.

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Others, such as my favorite living short-story writer, Alice Munro, may start with a memory.

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As I describe in my book "Moonwalking With Einstein", the art of remembering better in memory competition -- and to remembering better in everyday life -- is about figuring out how to turn capital "B" Bakers into lowercase "b" bakers.

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