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{{quote|'''Treebeard''': I don't suppose you've seen Entwives in the Shire?
'''Pippin''': [''shakes head''] What do they look like?
'''Treebeard''': I don't remember now.
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So, it has been clarified, [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|immortality ''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
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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Unless, of course, the immortal character in question records everything in a diary/volume of books or something, but how often does this happen?
A common partial aversion is to have the
Not to be confused with [[Shrouded in Myth]].
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