Why Do We Forget People's Names as Soon as We Meet Them?
Once, at a party, I was introduced to a friend of a friend. We shook hands, I told her my name, she told me hers. Then she did something that I was ever so grateful for. "Hang on," she said. "Can you say your name again? I wasn't really listening." She saved me from having to later—possibly even at the same party—sheepishly admit that I, too, had already forgotten her name...
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