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== Real Life ==
* This trope is quite far from [[Truth in Television]]: not only do people not really remember their infancy, most people don't remember their childhood as well as they think they do and can be easily tricked into rememberremembering stuffthings that never happened (as demonstrated by, among others, [[wikipedia:Elizabeth Loftus|Elizabeth Loftus]]).
* Dawn Prince-Hughes Ph. D's biography "Songs of the Gorilla Nation" describes a memory of her own birth, recalling a nurse with horn-rimmed glasses.
* [[Ray Bradbury]] [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/books/chapters/0724-1st-weller.html claimed] he can remember being born.