Around 10 years ago, Malcolm MacLeod got interested in forgetting.
For most people, the tendency to forget is something we spend our time cursing. Where are my keys? What am I looking for in the refrigerator again? What is that woman's name?
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During his acceptance speech last night at the Republican Convention, Mitt Romney told a story about his father. He said his father gave his mother a rose every day and left it by the bed. She found out he had died on the day the rose did not appear.
