Just Read....

 

 Long story short - I read this book recently.  I found the whole story very intriguing - I saw this woman once on 20/20, which is what made me pick it up at the booksale in the first place.

Basically, in short, this woman remember every single day of her adult (and teenage) life.  She can recall everything from every given day.  Aside from the oddness of this - what I find most odd is that she can identify the day of the week and the specific date of every event.  As if it's not enough that she, specifically, remembers ever day - I can think of many days of my life in which I remember what happened, but never even thought about what date it was and was sometimes confused at times about what day of the week it was.  

Anyhow - scientifically - brain scans prove this woman is, scientifically, different.   I can remember random details from random events - like what everyone ordered at dinner from a random girls' night out (maybe this is my four years of waitressing coming into play).  I once corrected a close friend about the date in which she lost her virginity (and she conceded I was correct).  However, I cannot touch this woman.

There were a lot of random tidbits throughout this story that sparked my interest - the fact that this woman was never heavy but her mother constantly tormented her about her weight, the fact that she met her husband in an internet chat room (before meeting someone online was trendy), the fact that she's a young widow who has her dead husband's, uh, genes preserved so she can one day have his baby....  Sigh.

I am most curious, however, if there is anyone else out there like her.  She is the only documented case of this circumstance - I wonder if there are others.  Hmm.