What is your earliest memory ?
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IrisSenior
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- Ontario, Canada
A hanging across the road. I was about 4 yr old and there were people on the edge of the road in front of my house. Some brought sandwiches to eat and at the time I didn't know what was happening. Guy across the road had hung himself. Guess that was news of the day. The year was 1955.
My earliest memory was of sitting in a wooden chair on a very rainy day and eating a sandwich while I watched a cartoon about a tiger. I think that I was about four at the time, and memory functions just kicked in then, anchored by the multiple sensory inputs stimulated...
CrackerJack
UK England
Going to Eire with my Mum and I was about 2 i think. Going on the old paddle steamer the Princess Alice to Dublin and seeing folk vomiting kver the rails as the crosding was very rough. Then on the bus to Tullamore to stay with Mums Sis in law's rellies. More to impart...bbl
hollydolly
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Being dropped downstairs from the top to the bottom.. by the 9 year old son of the foster parents I was with at the time, who was sent to get me while crying...... ( I was 14 months old )... mother couldn't believe I had a recollection of it being so young...
Well actually my very first memory is being held in the arms of the foster mother and my mother waving from the back of a taxi.... as she left... and then the next waking up in the cot, standing up, staring at a door in an otherwise empty room and crying, then comes the 9 year old boy to get me.... obviously too heavy for him to handle and he dropped me
Well actually my very first memory is being held in the arms of the foster mother and my mother waving from the back of a taxi.... as she left... and then the next waking up in the cot, standing up, staring at a door in an otherwise empty room and crying, then comes the 9 year old boy to get me.... obviously too heavy for him to handle and he dropped me
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Whattt.........never !!
Damaged Goods
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- Maryland
I looked into a bright light and saw God screwing on my left leg.
Actually, it was the birth doctor grabbing my feet and pulling upward. He had a white beard.
Mom told me yrs. later that the doc was indeed an old guy with a white beard.
Actually, it was the birth doctor grabbing my feet and pulling upward. He had a white beard.
Mom told me yrs. later that the doc was indeed an old guy with a white beard.
Gardenlover
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Hmmm let me think. This morning, when I took my first drink of coffee.
I remember it as if it happened yesterday. I described what I saw some years later to my mother, including the colour of the walls, which were green and cream. She confirmed that it was exactly as I described it. I had never been inside the place apart from when I was born, as children were not permitted to visit their mothers when their siblings were born.
hollydolly
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you were born feet first?
There I was, nice and warm, wet and in the dark, then all hell broke loose, I was ejected from my nice safe haven into a strange room with bright light........then some cruel sod only went and smacked my arse.....and I'd not even done anything. 
Ruth n Jersey
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- Northern New Jersey
I remember being in my grandparents house laying on a cot when I was about 2 or 3. There was a coat rack next to the cot and I was watching the shadows of the coats on the wall.
My mom told me when we visited my grandparents and I got tired, I would lay on the cot and watch the shadows. Someone would give the jackets a push and it wouldn't be long before I fell asleep. I can still here the murmur of the adults talking around the kitchen table before I drifted off. Very comforting.
My mom told me when we visited my grandparents and I got tired, I would lay on the cot and watch the shadows. Someone would give the jackets a push and it wouldn't be long before I fell asleep. I can still here the murmur of the adults talking around the kitchen table before I drifted off. Very comforting.
RadishRose
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- Connecticut, USA
Being in my crib looking at the clouds through the window.
Damaged Goods
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- Maryland
you were born feet first?
Actually, mom said head first. She couldn't believe such a humongous head could emerge from such a small woman.
My memory prolly pertains to a few moments after birth. The doc may've been inspecting the ten-pound lump he had delivered a few minutes earlier. "What the hell is this?!"
CarolfromTX
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- Central Texas
Eating bacon sandwiches for breakfast with my grandmother.
AnnieA
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- Down South
Trying to mimic my mom and grandmother doing floor calisthenics at a little under two years old. Able to date the age accurately because of the timing of my grandmother's visit that year.