For me, that sound, that face, it never goes away. My hearing has worsened with age, and illness. That helps.

I still remember almost everything I hear. Even 35 years after a benign brain tumor, an acoustic neuroma, deleted my left side hearing, and impaired my facial nerve, most information is stored permanently. Being a “super recognizer” of faces, the opposite end on the facial recognition spectrum from Prosopagnosia, face blindness, does not create storage …