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Why We Sometimes Remember Distant Details But Lose Recent Faces

I remember exactly what my grandmother's hands looked like but I cannot picture my own mother's face even though she died just two years ago.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief can create blocks in memory that selectively preserve distant comfort while obscuring recent loss.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Memory — how it works and fails?”

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