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'''Treebeard''': I don't remember now.|[[The Lord of the Rings|The Two Towers]]}}
 
So, it has been clarified, [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|immortality]] ''[[Who Wants to Live Forever?|sucks'']]''. You see all your [[Mayfly-December Romance|friends and loved ones die off]], you have to constantly [[Masquerade|come up with new forms of ID]], and if you don't keep abreast of mortal matters, you're going to find yourself [[Totally Radical|completely irrelevant]] in a century or two. On the plus side, you're a living witness to history. You could have been alive at the fall of the Berlin Wall, the treaty at Appomatox Court House, or even the signing of the Declaration of Independence. And you'll be able to recall that as long as you live, right?
 
Well, hold on a second... see, one could argue that [[My Skull Runneth Over|there's only so much space the brain can hold, like a video cassette]]. Which means that, if you live long enough, your brain's going to start recording over itself. You might forget where you were born, what your parents looked like, hell, maybe even what your real name is. And it'll be lost forever to the sands of time.
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