# Anyone else remember the alternate ending to "Big"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 16, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864 "2002-04-16T02:03:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 841
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I was thinking about this thread, and _poof_ it appeared! In a MPSIMS thread, I replied to someone’s “I have this memory, but found out it’s not true” post… well, here’s my whole reply, because it does apply to the latest “I vividly remember it happening”: > [@Share a childhood memory - just for fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-a-childhood-memory-just-for-fun/851123/89): > > I have memories like this, where once I dig up old facts I realize it could NOT have happened the way I _clearly_ remember it. > > In fact, there’s a book _“So Long, See You Tomorrow”_ that deals with this. A boy grows up with a memory of playing in a neighbor’s house under construction, with snowflakes falling. Goes back as an adult, and the homeowners are puzzled: “We built this house in the summer, construction was May to August.” > > Memories like these have gotten me to research the nature of how we store and retrieve memories. It’s not pulling a paper from a file cabinet, it’s more like sifting through a pile of scraps of paper and trying to reconstruct a memory. We pull scraps that someone has told us about, others from the wrong event, and some that our brains have just made up, for fun. > Anyhow, my earliest memory is seeing Sinbad in the alternate ending to BIG. Watching it with Nelson Mandela, on his prison deathbed… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864)._