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9/11: A Clear Episodic Memory
Malik Hall
Professor Suitor
February 12, 2015

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I can recall on several occasions where I have experienced a clear episodic memory. One experience was in 2001 when I was five years old. It was the day of 9/11 and I remember being in my kindergarten classroom. I remember the teachers on their cell phone with a panic­look on their face; they were talking about towers. A few minutes went by and my mom checked me out of school and I was so scared because I did not know what was going on. We got home and I remember my mom turning on the television. I had seen planes crashing into the twin towers and people were flying out of the building. My mom started crying and telling me to pray with her.
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