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It’s amazing what we can remember and what we forget! Six years after the death of Princess Diana, a famous magazine reported

REPORT

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that every one of the famous people they had asked could remember the exact details

DETAIL

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of how they first heard the news of the princess’s death on August 31, 1997.

ONE

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We remember such shocking and dramatic events better than any others but why do we forget anything?

WELL

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The things we most often forget are names (of things as well as people), numbers, dates and things we do not understand.

NOT UNDERSTAND

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We also find it hard to remember anything when we are embarrassed, ill or very tired.

EMBARRASS

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However, forgetting is perfectly normal. There is, it seems, a limit to what we can remember. If we could remember everything, all the time, life would become impossible!

BECOME

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As we get older, we lose more and more of memories,

MEMORY

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leaving only the most important.

IMPORTANT