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Old 01-18-2020, 02:50 PM   #1638
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by glatt
I bet we can recognize thousands of faces. Maybe tens of thousands. Even if we have trouble placing them.
I have an abnormally good ability to recognize faces, and an abnormally bad ability to put them in context. On multiple occasions, I've recognized someone that I spent as little as an hour with as a child, some 15 years after the fact. And yet, more than once I have seen an actual, current friend of mine out of context--like they're a parent at my kids' school, and I see them at the grocery store without their kids--and I can't for the life of me figure out how I know them.
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