I remember everything; EXCLUSIVE: AMAZING MEMORY WOMAN BEST FOR REAL LIFE.(Features)

From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: May 10, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: BY MATT ROPER

THE ability to remember everything sounds like an amazing gift - but for Jill Price it's an exhausting burden that has taken over her life.

Most of us would find it hard to recall what we ate last week, yet Jill, 42, remembers that on April 11, 1993 she cooked spaghetti, and on March 28, 1999 she ate scrambled eggs for breakfast. She also had a headache.

On February 28, 1983 her car windscreen wipers stopped working.

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