If I'm a dolphin I know my name and I know your name and we could recognize each other right away, even in dark murky water.

NPR: Study: Dolphins Call Out Their Own Names

In my early twenties it was a year before she learned my boyfriend's last name, though she would dedicate weeks to hunting in flea markets for just the right piece of furniture for my apartment.

NPR: 'Pretty' Chronicles Drastic Steps to Prevent Cancer

" I remember once waking up from a dream in which my mother, dead now for thirty-three years, was sipping tea at my kitchen table, reading a newspaper on the back of which there was the headline "Wrong Man, Right Name, Convicted in Murder Trial.

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