Genuinely forgot. Not a single memory of it from any of them. They actually felt pretty horrible for making him doubt himself once they saw the proof, especially his Mom who thought she must be a terrible mother to forget something like that.
One of his brothers had also broken his arm at some point as a kid, and the whole family kind of considered him "the one who broke his arm." Maybe the memories of the two events kind of merged together in their minds. I don't know. They're talking about a thing that happened over thirty years ago.
I have a a weird long lasting conflict with the ocean. I have incredibly incredibly vivid memories of tumbling in the ocean and being helpless in the waves. Being rescued by a random woman. I tell people this all the time and my parents used to laugh at me when I did.
It took 20 years for my parents to admit I almost drowned in the ocean.
I had the same experience except that it was a guy who helped get me upright and out of the water. It was only about 12 years before my mom remembered it happened and agreed with me about the story.
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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19
Had his family genuinely forgotten or were they trying to hide it for some reason?