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Seeing an old toy or childhood object fills me with a disproportionate wave of emotion
Childhood objects carry episodic memory hooks — they are encoded alongside the emotions, sensations, and relationships of the period in which they were experienced. Seeing them does not just trigger a memory; it triggers the emotional context of the entire period.
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