True romance

[cimorene]

Last week when we were reading in bed I said to waxjism, "Can you believe when we first met in person I thought you were cool?" ... and we both almost laughed ourselves out of bed.

It's actually quite a strain to remember my first impressions of someone I know so well, though they were extremely vivid and I still have a lot of sensory memories of the occasion, no doubt due to neurotransmitters and teenaged emo and stuff like that (I was 20, probably still teenaged-emo if not technically teenaged).

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[laurajv]

I am not sure I can remember my first impressions of Nat, for the same reason. I've known him since I was 17, we started dating when we were 19.

I spent part of yesterday on a walk with an old friend -- we met in kindergarten. I have vivid memories of the day she cut her hair short in kindergarten, which must count among my earliest person-centered memories.

[cimorene]

I understand that 'reviewing' memories makes them last longer even while it makes them less accurate, so that is probably why I remember that occasion so well, because we were long-distance before and after it and I became really mopey about that.

I only have maybe three or four memories from kindergarten, though, and none of them are vivid anymore, they're more like little index-card synopses saved in my head.

[msilverstar]

You two! Fandom love!