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larussa

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This question will really make you think, the older you are the more thinking you will do. My question is: What is your earliest memory.

I found this question in a Jodi Picoult book I was reading and it stuck in my mind.

My earliest memory was when my siblings would babysit me while my parents were out. As soon as my parents left, they would take me out of bed and bring me downstairs on the stoop with them since that's where their friends were and I was crying to be with them. They didn't want to have to stay in the house with me so they just brought me along. As soon as they saw my parents car coming down the block they carried me back upstairs and put me to bed. I don't remember my sister being there so she may have been married by then, if so I had to be at least 6 years old since that's what age I was when she got married. That is as far back as I can remember, I have other childhood memories but I was older then.

So how far back can you remember. I know this could be a toughie
 

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I remember getting my favorite pink bottle as a baby. I couldn't have been more than 18 months at the time.

Everything else is bits and pieces until I was a little over 3 years old. I even remember my dad's old truck that he had until I was around 3 years old.
 

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Grea Question my friend...

unfortunately my earliest memmorie is sad...
I remember very well to my Grandfather lie on his bed dieying....

I never can´t erase that memmorie from my head....Seems like yesterday...
 

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I remember bits and pieces of our old house (we moved when I was 3). Mainly just snap shots here and there but I remember the floor in our bathroom vividly. It was made up of octagon tiles and for some reason it just fascinated me how they all fit together. I guess I stared at it a lot while potty training
. I also remember eating bologna in my parents' bed one day and throwing up all over dad's pillow.

I also remember our one neighbor. Well, not really the neighbor herself but rather the berry tarts she used to make "just for me".
 

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Sitting in a shopping cart in a auto supply section/store. and about the same age being in my great grandmas house. funny as I like alot of things she did and mom always commented on that
 

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I remember being at the races when my dad was racing one night, I was little - my mom was still holding me. No idea how old I was though.

I also remember refusing to eat my beets and steamed carrots at the first house I lived in, my mom put me to my room and I cried for awhile. I also remember peeing that bed
And her falling asleep in my big stuffed bear chair next to my crib. We moved from there when I was 3, so it was probably close to then. I also remember being there and watching the Giants play with my dad while laying in the big red bean bag chair.
 
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Just wanted to say I am loving your very earliest memories. It is really fascinating how much we can remember when we think about it. It's funny that I can remember things so far back and not remember what happened a week ago
, I know age has a lot to do with that.
 

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My first memory is when I was about 15 months old. I was at the store with my parents and somehow I got out of the cart and ran around for a while. I had learned to walk about 4 months prior and I guess I wanted to test my limits. So I walked around the produce section and then started to make my way to the front of the store. After about 10 minutes, my parents found me walking down the aisle munching on a cucumber
 

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About 2 years old. We moved into a big house with a big beautiful yard. I was outside with my older sisters and I saw a flower I wanted to pick for my mom--a purple iris. It had a bee on it and I got stung. I ran into the house, crying to my mom. My sisters got in trouble for not watching me.
 

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My earliest memory is a sad one too. My mother had left my daddy. I was the middle of three girls. We were living in the old farmhouse with my grandparents. I remember my oldest sister and I being in the floor at the window of the downstairs bedroom on our knees. We were looking out the window at our mother and grandmother arguing. Grandma wouldn't let her in the house because Daddy was at work and I think she must have been worried that mother would take us. We never talked about it. I have never even asked my sister if she remembers. Our youngest sister was probably still in the kiddy coop, too young to be up and walking.
Another memory I always had is of being in someone's arms, going in the front door of a house, being in a hallway, and seeing a sword hanging on the wall. I learned back in 2001 when I did my genealogy book, that my great grandfather on my daddy's side fought in the civil war. I visited my daddy's first cousin and she has his sword. My daddy told me it hung in his grandmother's house on the right wall in the hallway, but that I was too young to remember it being there. But I had the memory before I was ever told about the sword.
 
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