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Once a memory has been implanted through suggestion, it can seem very, very real to the person.
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This means that a memory introduced through suggestion may feel completely genuine to the person who holds it. Its vividness or strong sense of reality does not, by itself, show that the remembered event truly happened. The quote highlights the difference between how real a memory feels and how it was formed.
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