Within the brain, memories are formed and consolidated largely due to the help of a small seahorse-like structure called the hippocampus; damage the hippocampus, and you damage the ability to form lasting recollections.
But if you ask me about Sonny Carson, my last recollection was he said he is not anti-Semitic, he was antiwhite.
Her country's last recollection of her may have been on the gold medal podium after the super-G race four years ago in Nagano, Japan, but these Olympians do have lives and pursuits between the Games.
Although the Bridge will create revenue and jobs for the greater Detroit area, Delray residents will lose another memory and cultural landmark, dissolving a last recollection of what used to be.
"La Dernière Image," a series of photographs and texts, relays conversations the artist had with people who went blind suddenly, describing their last recollections of the visible world.
There was also the grappa and the nocino, and one of my last recollections is of Batali around three in the morning — back arched, eyes closed, an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth, his red Converse high-tops pounding the floor — playing air guitar to Neil Young's "Southern Man".
He was a somewhat distant but for all that loving grandfather to the three of my children whom he knew, and one of the last recollections I have of him being in the house where I'm writing this was of him picking up his youngest grandchild.
