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15. There is a book "Educated"
Thu Aug 29, 2019, 06:36 PM
Aug 2019

by Tara Westover, about growing up in an anti-government family that also shunned doctors.

Due to the rash nature of their parents, especially their father, the kids in this family experienced several traumatic accidents with severe injuries.

In writing the books, the author consulted with her siblings on what had happened. She doubted some of her own memories, because brothers or sister would recall the same event very differently.

One story involved wondering whether the father even cared that his son was injured. She recalled finding her brother by himself and taking him back home. The injured brother remembered the father was there with them.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
oh boy... where is the Biden Campaign staff when Joe needs them? bluewater Aug 2019 #1
I tend to agree ... doubling down on an unforced error is not a good look ... mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #26
Yep. Own it, correct it, pivot the spotlight to Trump gulliver Aug 2019 #29
Frankly, most of these "Biden did this, forgot that" OPs might have a little credibility elocs Aug 2019 #2
Seriously, do you really believe that all of the "undecideds" are really that? cwydro Aug 2019 #8
Agree. Many of the "undecideds" here show definite preferences, and opposition highplainsdem Aug 2019 #9
Me neither. Joe's a good man and we all mispeak on occasion. Ask my wife. marble falls Aug 2019 #12
... NYMinute Aug 2019 #3
. bluewater Aug 2019 #4
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Belated Welcome to DU! bluewater Aug 2019 #10
I agree. I really hope we don't end up as mean as a past primary season was. marble falls Aug 2019 #13
This New Yorker article explains how even college students scramble remembered details: highplainsdem Aug 2019 #5
This!! Thekaspervote Aug 2019 #11
Memory studies show that people in the same/place /time/experience remember things differently. ancianita Aug 2019 #14
Exactly. As I mentioned to someone else here today, I've seen my relatives at family reunions highplainsdem Aug 2019 #16
Your experience is the same as everyone else's. This memory crap about Biden is ageist BS. ancianita Aug 2019 #18
Peter Hamby had a really good piece about this stupid media coverage in Vanity Fair a couple of days highplainsdem Aug 2019 #19
I've gotten Vanity Fair for 20+ yrs, New Yorker for 30, and yep, this is good media criticism. ancianita Aug 2019 #20
There is a book "Educated" treestar Aug 2019 #15
I'm often appalled when I discover the misses in my memories Thirties Child Aug 2019 #28
The beauty of any Democrat who runs against Trump is that no matter what Mr.Bill Aug 2019 #7
Considering he has been around a while it is easy to get time and events confused. LiberalFighter Aug 2019 #17
Sure all Republicans no doubt who remember it differently ...good thing most don't believe shit Demsrule86 Aug 2019 #21
This is from the young solider who received the medal Gothmog Aug 2019 #22
I guess, when Joe plagiarized Neil Kinnock, rusty fender Aug 2019 #23
"Tempests in Teapots".. Cha Aug 2019 #24
+1,000,000. Thanks, Cha! Great points! highplainsdem Aug 2019 #30
And, from Gothmog's post above.. Cha Aug 2019 #25
Truth is, most people don't care about the gaffe. bearsfootball516 Aug 2019 #27
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