As my birth record shows I've been on this earth for over 66 years, although I doubt that very much.
All of my friends and previous work colleagues could recall what books they read at school or when they first started to learn French and things they did when they were young. As for me, I know I went to school and but was never taught French and I do know that my childhood was generally a happy one but my memories are very limited. They sometimes come back to me at the strangest of places and time and I know that not all that I remember is totally accurate.
It is as if I have spent a lot of my time popping in and out of parallel universes that do not allow you to bring back the memories. It is still happening today and Grandma Elaine can get very annoyed with me when I appear to be listening to what she is saying when I'm really off on my travels to some other place.
I was really amazed when I first saw the film Billy Liar where the lead character drifts off in his own world totally oblivious to what was happening around him, so here was a film saying that other people mind wander and I was not the only one. I love telling Harry bedtime stories and always make them up as I go along and sometimes I am always amazed how I can conjure up a good ending out of nowhere, having got myslf in a storyline that kept on rolling in various directions.
Perhaps I just popped into one of those worlds that I visit to get some inspiration.
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