Talk about the personal past is ubiquitous; we tell our daily adventures to friends and family over dinner, we share each other’s everyday lives over coffee and over the internet, and we reminisce about our life experiences, big and small, in snatches of conversations and long soliloquies. Importantly, almost all of the experiences we reminisce about have an emotional component. Whether they are the routine ups and downs of everyday life or the tumultuous emotions that can change our life...
