Is there anything you intentionally do to bring back a memory?

Is there anything you intentionally do to bring back a memory?
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answer:I will get drunk occasionally and put on Nat King Cole. My Father had always told me he had sung the perfect song. I am eleven again, having my first whiskey, listening to a vinyl record, and smoking a Pall Mall unfiltered in a dark kitchen with the old man.
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