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Matty Pemulis's birthday, and Da

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It was only the maturer perspective of years and experience that let Matty find something to be thankful for, that the Da’d at least used a lube. The origins of the big man’s clear familiarity with the stuff and its nighttime use not even adult perspective could illuminate, let Matty snap to, still, now, at twenty-three.

Context

The limit case: total recall plus adult perspective can reinterpret what's in the record, but can't supply what was never witnessed. Even perfect memory has edges.

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