He said: "From the moment I laid on eyes on him I knew he was someone special - he had such a cheeky smile and mischievous personality, you couldn't help but be charmed by him.
My mother and I spoke German to each other until I was a teenager, when, like many children of immigrants, I started refusing to speak anything but English.
The researchers aren't sure why, but one possibility is that remembering just one sentence in a theme involuntarily cues all the other sentences, thus hampering attempts to forget.
Now when you build your identity on something you do, some achievements of yours, you have to feel superior to the people who don’t have your identity factor.
Even obliquely suggesting the concept of old age will inspire people to walk more slowly—though feeling elderly never crossed their mind, they will later report.
I giggled to myself, remembering the times in the States when father begged mother not to walk out the house with a parasol. "Ai, no one here carries an umbrella on a sunny day. It was unheard of."