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[24] A Neuroscientist's Study Made Me Richer For The Night
“It might seem hard, but did you know that a neuroscientist had a study that said forgetting is adaptive. Regardless of whether you want to or not, your brain would remove small details about an event that happened to you. Until you can’t remember it anymore.”
Eric, if that was his real name, sniffed again. Wiping the tears that pooled in his eyes. He was an adorable pudgy man. He wasn’t exactly my type, since it didn’t seem like his wallet was as pudgy as him, but he was a good conversation. After my set, he had pulled me over and asked me to sit with him.
At first, he had pulled me to sit on my lap and buried his face on the crook of my neck.
I usually don’t allow that, but soon afterward, I found the reason why he did so. He was crying.
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