On remembering the year of a loved one's death... (Biden, Hur, etc.)

[thesquanderer]

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I don't know about you all, but I rarely remember any year of a particular event in my life, no matter how major.

Not to equate anything to losing a child, but as many pet owners know, losing a beloved pet can be overwhelming. I've had many pets in my life, and two I've lost were particularly special, one not all that long ago... and off-hand, I couldn't tell you the exact years of either (though the recent one I could at least pretty quickly figure out if I needed to). Without some time for thought (and maybe not even then), I couldn't tell you the exact year of almost anything important that happened in my life... marriage, moving into a house, deaths of close members of the family (including parents), whatever. And when you think about it, it kind of makes sense that our brains might not prioritize such detail, because the exact year something happened is usually not actually particularly useful information. And you don't expect to be quizzed.

I suspect that there are likely huge events in Hur's life that, if quizzed, he could not tell you the year of.