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Mem, mem, mem,’ ” she wrote in a preface to an excerpt from the eventual memoir, “The Shadow Factory,” in The American Scholar.

Such is the endurance of childhood mem­ories that anyone who has ever grown up with a summer home can’t help but view all family getaways through the prism of those early experiences.

Little more than a link and a line identifying the sender, Dec. 11th's email started like this: “Hi, I am a mem of guard-of-pis.”

It tasted warm and animal, if my mem­ory is right.

People had raised their eyebrows when Ali, a man who had mem­orized the Koran, married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation.