As she scanned the last item, the checkout attendant read from her monitor.
“That will be $66.78, thanks.”

I felt as frazzled as I appeared.
That could not be right. I looked at my enormous pile of groceries.
But when I looked to the attendant, she gave a small wink.

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Who knows? Maybe you remember your first kiss. Or that time a stranger sat with you after you clear fainted on a crowded lunchtime city street. But then, what is memory? Some of my life’s most memorable moments (Charlie finding that golden ticket) never happened.
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