Sue Halpern is scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and author, most recently, of Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From The Front Lines of Memory Research. See full bio
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Memory is a crucial part of human identity. Maybe you think of it as just "a record of stuff that happened," but if you don't know where you've been, you can't know who you are or where you're going.
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