It was "the first time I can remember identifying so thoroughly with a character in a movie.
Most girls that grew up in the '90s remember identifying with a certain Spice (Ginger is petite and half-Spanish, just like me!).
I don't recall having any heroes, but I remember strongly identifying with Eugene Gant in "Look Homeward, Angel".
I think my mother must have read us the Brothers Grimm version … I remember that I identified particularly strongly with Hansel.
On my quest to find local crafts I remember starting to identify the same Chinese-made sculptures in various remote markets of Laos and Thailand.
Even back in 1982 I can remember people identifying Thompson as a prospective director general.
But my friend's stories are ones I can identify with – I remember my mum hiding vegetables from my fussy sister in pasta sauces, her confident ability to open our pantry and adapt our favourite dishes to suit what she found, and the comforting regularity with which we'd recreate the same meals, over and over again.
No one knows how many box holders weren't counted, but an employee at the Washington Depot post office, who asked not to be identified said, "I remember sending trays of census forms back to the Census Bureau because they were addressed to people's physical address instead of their mailing address".
"She brought them to the museum to be identified, and I remember our curator Jack Horner asking her 'Can you find this site again?' because what she'd brought in were the first arm bones of a T. rex ever found," Shelley McKamey, the director of the Museum of the Rockies in Montana, told Smithsonian Magazine.
Too often, she seems more interested in finding something with which the reader can safely identify (oh, right, I remember the time I ate all those brownies after the divorce) than in risking the searing, disquieting honesty that makes us (as we do, reading Munro) see and admit something secret and previously hidden about ourselves, our behavior and the world in which we live.
